Many lawyers and advocates worry the practice is too easy to exploit and could make it harder for genuine abuse survivors to get justice
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The first time many people heard the term “claim farming” was last week when New South Wales police announced that seven arrests had been made and an allegedly fraudulent claims farming syndicate had been uncovered.
Police alleged that “claims farmers” at the heart of the scheme coached former young offenders, inmates and public school students on how to file false compensation claims for child sexual abuse while in care, then sold those referrals on to law firms in Sydney.
