AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Rebecca Trigger and Jade Macmillan
Law firm Slater and Gordon has defended its handling of a class action on behalf of people abused in children’s homes run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia.
Several victims who have given evidence at the Perth hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse took part in the class action.
Ted Delaney, who received $3,000 compensation, described the process as a joke and accused Slater and Gordon of fighting for its own commission rather than the victims.
Hayden Stephens, a Slater and Gordon lawyer, today appeared on the fourth day of the commission’s hearings in Perth.
In the early 1990s, Mr Stephens was involved in the class action against the Christian Brothers representing the boys who alleged abuse.
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