My nod I recieved on Monday.
My advice is that you want a new lawyer (not the one you used previously) and this needs to be a good lawyer who is very experience with judicial reviews for refugee cases. If you want the best lawyer and best chance of succeeding, you will need to hire one yourself and unfortunately this won't be cheap. Relying on a lawyer through legal aid will give you a lower chance of success.
You need another lawyer. If you don’t trust your lawyer’s suggestion then find a new one. There is no way around it, it will be expensive. Also these are the law fees for just the first stage: Leave Stage. If successful, you then will have fees for the judicial review. So for the leave stage, estimates are $7-10,000. The leave stage looks at whether there was an error according to current laws or whether judgment was fair. And then if successful, another $7-10,000 to prepare for a judicial review. Find a qualified lawyer that can provide a flat fee rather than per hour. Again these are estimates.
