South Australian Youth Detention Class Action

Kefford Ferguson act for a number of survivors of childhood sexual and physical abuse, and consequential psychological injury, which occurred from 1970 to 31 December 2015 at Magill Training Centre.

These children were some of the most vulnerable members of our community. 

Kefford Ferguson have issued a class action on behalf of all such survivors and affected family members in the Supreme Court of South Australia. 

The applicants allege in this class action that those in positions of power supervising the children at Magill committed horrendous abuse on them. The Applicants also allege that those operating Magill, while having a stringent responsibility to see that the children were kept safe, failed to take any or any relevant steps to protect them from the abuse. 

Magill Training Centre was the subject of a parliamentary inquiry, undertaken by the Hon. E. P. Mullighan QC, ending in 2008.  The inquiry found that children had been abused for decades at Magill. The Applicants will contend at trial that, despite those findings, the abuse continued until Magill was forced to close in 2015. 

The abuse on the child survivors has had a devastating impact on them, with life long consequences affected every facet of their lives. 

Victims and their families are able to register with Kefford Ferguson as the firm fights for the rights of these survivors and fights for compensation for the wrongdoing that has been committed against the children. 

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