Lawyers for Australian Quantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks have been granted an urgent hearing in the Federal Court amid hopes he can be brought home before Christmas. Hicks' lawyers today lodged papers with the court in Sydney, accusing the federal government of failing to provide adequate assistance to an Australian citizen abroad.
A directions hearing has been granted before Justice Brian Tamberlin on 15 December.
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and the federal government have all been named in the papers filed with the court today.
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