Australia: Binsaris v Northern Territory; Webster v Northern Territory; O’Shea v Northern Territory; Austral v Northern Territory [2020] HCA 22
In Binsaris v NT, Webster v NT, O’Shea v NT and Austral v NT the High Court considered the use of powers of officers at youth detention centres in the Northern Territory. In particular, they considered whether a prison officer was entitled to deploy CS gas, a form of tear gas, at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in the Northern Territory on 21 August 2014. The case followed the release of footage in 2016 of the four appellants being exposed to CS gas at the Detention Centre and the 2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children.
