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Exclusive: Leader of successful class action says government should ‘step in to overturn the convictions’, amid calls for a formal apology

A total of 240 Indonesian citizens who were thrown into Australian prison received compensation of AUD 27,5 million after being declared free from punishment on charges o

Federal court judge deems amount awarded to children imprisoned for people smuggling offences as ‘fair and reasonable’

The children were wrongly deemed to be adults by federal police and Australian courts, who were relying on a wildly inaccurate technique

Guardian investigation found the church routinely uses deaths of paedophile priests to avoid paying or to reduce amount of settlements

Church has been granted special leave to appeal Victorian judgment that found Ballarat diocese was vicariously liable for abuse of child

Commonwealth agrees to settle with more than 120 Indonesians wrongly detained as adult people smugglers, some when they were as young as 12

The government and Nowland’s family will enter private negotiations over civil case alleging the state was liable for her death

Lawyers to push forward with action against Salvatore Vasta after federal court found he committed ‘serious and fundamental errors’ in separate Mr Stradford case

Federal circuit court judge Salvatore Vasta made series of basic errors when he locked up man known as Mr Stradford in late 2018, federal court finds