There are several ways you can qualify as a group member so if you were detained as a juvenile in either Rangeview, Banksia Hill, Hakea or Unit 18 at Casuarina Prison, register your details today and a solicitor will contact you to confirm your eligibility.’

All you need to do to ‘join’ the action is establish that you are a group member, so register your details and a member of our legal team will be in touch. You may register the details of another person, for example a relative or friend, if they cannot register themselves because they are disabled, still under 18, or have passed away.

The lead applicants’ claims are used to determine the key issues for group members. This means that once your eligibility has been confirmed by a member of our Banksia Hill legal team, you don’t have to do anything.

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The class action is being run on a “no win, no fee” basis. This means that you do not need to pay any legal fees in relation to the class action, unless there is a successful outcome that makes you better off. 

Put another way, the only financial contribution you will make towards the cost of running the action is out of any money you get from the action, whether from an out-of-court settlement or a court judgment in favour of the group.   

If the class action is not successful, you will not have to pay anything; you will be in the same position you are today. 

Class actions are complicated and usually take a long time. We expect the Banksia Hill class action will take between 18 months and 2 years to reach a conclusion.

A class action is a lawsuit that is brought by one or more people (who are called the “applicants”) on behalf of a group of people (who are called the “group members”) against one or more other people (who are called the “respondents”). For it to be a class action, the applicants and the group members must have similar claims against the respondent(s).