A class action has been lodged against the State Government, through the Education Department and inflatable jumping castle operator Taz-Zorb, over the Hillcrest Primary School Tragedy, in which six children were killed and three more received serious injuries in 2021.
Monday is the third anniversary of the tragedy, in which happened when an inflatable jumping castle was launched into the air by a gust of wind on December 16, 2021.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn has filed the action on behalf of the Hillcrest community and it’s calling for those involved to join the legal action.
It says children who suffered a physical or psychological injury during the incident, witnesses of the incident or the immediate aftermath, and close family members of the deceased or injured children are all eligible to join.
Meanwhile, a decision in a criminal case against the jumping castle operator is due to be handed down in February, following a lengthy hearing in Devonport last month.
