SA: Court adjourns trial to release child detainees
The Family Court has adjourned a landmark case seeking the release of five childrenfrom detention.
Justice STEVEN STRICKLAND has adjourned the matter until Tuesday after rejecting anapplication from government lawyers to dismiss the case.
Earlier today, Justice STRICKLAND ruled a case existed that the detention of the children,aged between five and 14, is unlawful.
But he says he doesn't have sufficient evidence before him to decide whether to releasethe two boys and three girls.
Lawyers for the children had sought their immediate release under an interim orderapplication until a full trial of the siblings' case starts on September the 15th.
The two boys are being detained with their father at the Baxter Detention Centre inSouth Australia.
The three girls are on a home detention program in Woomera.
Justice STRICKLAND today deferred any decision about where the children should resideuntil he hears further evidence.
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KEYWORD: DETENTION (ADELAIDE)
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