00:00It's been 50 years, but the sexual abuse Brian suffered as a 12-year-old continues to haunt
00:08him.
00:09To this day I still have nightmares, wake up in cold sweats.
00:14It never goes away.
00:16Brian spent two years at this former Salvation Army boys home in Melbourne's east.
00:21He was just 12 when he was preyed upon by two pedophiles.
00:24I thought I was the guilty one because that's the way they made you feel.
00:29Four years ago Brian was compensated through the National Redress Scheme, but after legal
00:33fees he got just $40,000.
00:36I felt like I was being kicked in the teeth.
00:40Brian's current lawyers believe he was short-changed and would have received much more if he'd
00:44taken a different legal path and gone to court.
00:48Under the redress scheme payouts are capped at $150,000.
00:52The value of the claim that many individuals, we allege, have lost runs into the hundreds
01:02of thousands, sometimes over a million dollars.
01:05And those kinds of figures have been awarded by the courts in recent times.
01:09Just last year the Western Bulldogs AFL club was ordered to pay abuse survivor Adam Neal
01:14$5.9 million.
01:17Brian is now suing his former lawyers at No More Legal.
01:20In a statement of claim the legal centre is alleged to have pushed Brian towards the
01:24redress option without properly explaining the potential benefits of going to court.
01:29They use what we call the No More system and that is, it's a generic pro forma sausage
01:38factory type approach.
01:39In a statement No More Legal says it's proudly helped thousands of clients obtain redress
01:44payments and will vigorously defend the claims made against it in court.
01:49More than 180 former clients of No More from around the country have joined Brian, turning
01:55this into a major class action in Victoria's Supreme Court.
01:58If No More loses, the centre or its insurers might have to pay out millions.
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