Have you (or a family member) been detained in BHDC? If so, please register your details. We would like to speak to you about your experiences, with a view to commencing class action proceedings on your behalf.
Mistreatment of detainees held in BHDC:
Timeline of Class Action Proceedings

Register your details with Class PR.

Class PR liaises with Levitt Robinson to select a Lead Applicant(s) to represent the rest of the group for the duration of the case. Solicitors choose the Lead Applicant based upon it featuring most, if not all, of the examples of BHJD’s failings.
Sign a funding agreement.
Once we have established enough interest in the action, we will officially commence proceedings and ask that you sign a funding agreement between you and a third-party litigation funder, who is footing the bill. This means you do not have to spend any of your own money to be involved and are protected from any liability for the other side’s costs.
In the event that the group wins, the funder is entitled to recover the legal costs, and to take a ‘funder’s premium’, usually 30%. The remaining 70% of the settlement money is divided between you and other group members. The amount you receive is calculated based upon your individual claims and/or particular losses.
In the event that the group loses, you are not liable to pay any money whatsoever towards the proceedings.
BHDC in the media
Community Services Minister Simone McGurk knew about police complaint three weeks before whistleblower raid
Community Services Minister Simone McGurk was aware that her department had made a police complaint about leaks more than three weeks before 11 officers stormed the home of an Aboriginal public servant over the case.
Liam Michael Bradley avoids jail over fire attack on woman and her daughter with swastika on his forehead
Liam Michael Bradley carried out the sickening racial attack, targeting the 40-year-oldwoman and her 15-year-old daughter as they walked near a Gosnells shopping centre in February last year.
Children’s Court President Hylton Quail spares teen detention over shocking treatment at Banksia Hill
The President of the Children’s Court has taken the extraordinary step of sparing a teenager – who he described as “without a
doubt the most difficult detainee at Banksia Hill” – further detention saying he was better off in the community than at the
facility because of the “dehumanising” treatment.
Boy, 15, in solitary for 79 days
A 15-year-old boy was locked alone in a glass-walled observation cell for 79 days, including Christmas Day, and on just 34 of those days he was led from solitary confinement to a 20m-long cage where he was permitted to exercise for about one hour.