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

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, upon notice, on 18 August 2011:

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.