BW v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP) (2017)
[2017] AusHRC 115
[2017] AusHRC 115
[2017] AusHRC 114
[2017] AusHRC 113
[2017] AusHRC 112
[2017] AusHRC 111
[2015] AusHRC 93
[2014] AusHRC 92
[2014] AusHRC 91
[2014] AusHRC 80
Four Aboriginal men with intellectual and cognitive disabilities were held for years in a maximum security prison in the Northern Territory despite being found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity.
If two of these men had been found guilty they would have received a sentence of 12 months. Instead, they were imprisoned for four and a half years and six years respectively.
The Australian Human Rights Commission conducted an inquiry into whether this involved any breach of human rights by Commonwealth.