Commenting on the class action lawsuit filed against the Department of Defence this week, Greens NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon said the Department’s failure to properly act on this issue has forced local residents to take action. “It should never have come to this,” Senator Rhiannon said. “After over a year of anguish, patience and stoic resilience, residents in Williamtown feel that they have …
MORE than 500 residents caught up in the Oakey water contamination crisis could be part of a possible class action suit against the Department of Defence. Shine Lawyers partner Peter Shannon said he had received overwhelming interest in legal action, more than two years after the Department first raised concerns about the presence of toxic chemicals from a nearby army base. The revelations come …
Statements of defence from both deny blame over faulty hair tests used in court to remove children from their parents. He rejects the findings of an independent review led by retired Court of Appeal Justice Susan Lang last year, which harshly criticized hair testing procedures at Motherisk. “The hair testing methodologies employed by (Motherisk) were, at all material times, accurate and …
The Toronto District School Board and an elementary school principal said they behaved like a “prudent parent” to protect two students, despite claims that the children faced repeated threats and assaults inflicted by a classmate with special needs. In a statement of defence filed earlier this month in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the school board and the principal at John Wanless …
Litigation funder IMF Bentham plans to back a class action against the Australian Defence Force over the Williamtown contamination scandal. A firefighting chemical used by the Williamtown RAAF base, 30km north of Newcastle, five years ago has been found to have polluted groundwater and soil at the base and in the surrounding residential area. Now Williamtown residents want to sue the Defence …
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Tough times in Fullerton Cove
The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries has banned all forms of fishing in Fullerton Cove following the discovery of a suspected carcinogen, perfluorooctane sulfonate, in prawns and fish. This is the story of some affected locals.
Lawyers representing residents in Oakey say they have the final clearance to commence a class action against the Department of Defence. About 450 residents are demanding financial compensation for their dwindling property prices, because of contaminated groundwater emanating from a Defence base next to the …