http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/newshome/9039786/asylum-seekers-likely-to-sue-lawyer/

The Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) says asylum seekers could sue the Commonwealth for hundreds of thousands of dollars for any physical or mental harm suffered while held in detention.

The comments come after as many as 250 protesters at the Christmas Island Detention Centre threw rocks at federal police and burned down several accommodation buildings on Thursday night.

Authorities are reporting a quiet night on the island last night.

Barrister and ALA director Greg Barns is predicting some asylum seekers will seek compensation.

"Holding someone in detention in very difficult facilities particularly if they have mental and physical health problems for long periods of time can amount to cruel and unusual punishment," he said.

"That certainly means that the Australian government would be in violation of those international human rights and people can take action."
"If it is found that those people have suffered mental and physical harm and it's directly caused by the conditions of detention and or the length of detention the Commonwealth can be liable for damages."

This is the greens for you!

How disgusting - these urchin people who turn up on our shores are nothing more than garbage.

Why we pander to such worthless cretins who are of no use to anyone is beyond me.

I'd send them all back from whence they came.

Make some examples of them.

hey jack have the cops given your pc back?

Now that is a sick crime mate.....

dp you mean to tell me uninvited "guests" can not only sue the govt.. we also have to pay for the legals?????>.

is there something sick about our society,,

even I cant sue the govt!! they are above all else

Iranian refugee wants compensation for stress Shelley Hadfield
From: Herald Sun
March 19, 2011 12:00AM

AN Iranian refugee who was detained after arriving in Australia has launched legal action for pain and suffering. Siavash Mossavian, 32, spent four years and five months in detention before being released in April 2005.

He was granted a temporary protection visa and, later, citizenship.

But he alleges the Government breached its duty to him during his time in detention, resulting in physical, psychological and psychiatric harm.

In documents filed in the Victorian Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr Mossavian say these injuries include post-traumatic stress disorder, a major depressive disorder, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, and pain and suffering.

He wants damages and interest.

Mr Mossavian spent time at the Curtin, Port Hedland and Baxter detention centres after arriving in Australia in 2000.
Australasian Correctional Services and GSL operated the centres, according to court documents.
Mr Mossavian claims that the Commonwealth breached its duties because:
IT was reasonably foreseeable that the way in which the centres were operated exposed him to the risk of injury or harm.
FAILURE to devise, implement and monitor systems and policies in place at the detention centres would have an adverse impact on his health.
FAILURE to provide adequate medical facilities and treatment would expose him to the risk of injury.

Mr Mossavian declined to comment yesterday.

Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara said people who suffered a total disability as a result of crime were not adequately compensated, and it was ridiculous that someone should seek damages over their time in a detention centre.

"It's a great cheek. We have a habit of pandering to these people," he said. 
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bomen_guy wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 5:08pm:



Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 5:09pm:





Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 5:10pm:



listen dickhead if you can't comment on the post don't attack the messeger.

the police never took my computer away anyway if you like to check thro my post you will see I have been posting on this site and on the message board I run.

I never commited any crime, I never broke any law like you and your sister have. You think you are so high and mighty but in my book you are only a bit of shyte everything with you is money money money, you have no social conscience.

You think everything is about you all the time but I let you in on a little secret the universe doesn't revolve round you, you are only a small thing in the big scheme of things.

nichy wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 7:29pm:



Who was in power for those 4 years and 5 months that Mr Mossavian was in detention. You can't blame any labor goverment for that.