Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Attorney-General, upon notice, on 18 August 2011:

With reference to the answer to question on notice no. 1011 (Senate Hansard, 11 October 2011, p. 106), how much has been paid by way of legal aid in the pursuit of the cases.

Have any detainees or former detainees at immigration detention facilities initiated legal action against the Commonwealth for illegal detention: if so:

  (a) how many;

  (b) how many claims have been: (i) settled, or (ii) contested in court, by the Commonwealth;

  (c) what has been the: (i) average, and (ii) total cost of settling these claims to date;

  (d) which law firms, centres or practitioners have acted for such claimants;

  (e) how many claimants has each firm, centre or practitioner represented; and

  (f) has any firm, centre or practitioner been in receipt of funding from the Commonwealth for acting on behalf of detainees or former detainees; if so, in each case, how much was the funding].