Counsel for airport strip-search victims grilled by full court

Australian women strip-searched at a Doha airport have fought to access a never-before-seen contract between an airport...

26 March 2025

By Naomi Neilson

Over 100k festival-goers to receive notices for strip-search class action

In response to alleged unlawful strip searches at music events and festivals, more than 100,000 festival-goers have...

29 July 2024

By Grace Robbie

Date set for ‘landmark’ strip-search class action against NSW Police

The trial date for a longstanding class action lawsuit regarding strip searches has been set by the Supreme Court of...

20 May 2024

By Grace Robbie

Women can’t sue Qatar Airways for 2020 strip searches, judge rules

Five Australian women subjected to invasive searches at Doha Airport in 2020 are not able to sue Qatar Airways for...

15 April 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

1.5k children strip-searched in 7 years, law research reveals

NSW police strip-searched the equivalent of 51 school classes in seven years, a new report from the Redfern Legal...

25 March 2024

By Naomi Neilson

NSW strip-search class action gets green light

An attempt by the NSW government to shut down a class action into strip searches by police at festivals has...

03 January 2024

By Naomi Neilson

‘David and Goliath battle’: Passengers sue Qatari airline and authority over unlawful bodily searches

Five women, who were passengers on an October 2020 Qatar Airways flight, and some of whom were subjected to invasive,...

21 October 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Strip search class action filed against state of NSW

Slater and Gordon and Redfern Legal Centre have filed proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW against the state on...

22 July 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Strip searches in children’s detention centres to end in Tasmania

The Tasmanian government has passed laws that will end routine strip searches of children in Tasmanian...

06 June 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

‘Ground-breaking’ class action launched against NSW Police

Festival-goers who were unlawfully searched by NSW Police could be entitled to “substantial” compensation as part...

18 November 2021

By Lauren Croft