Rightside Legal has successfully represented clients who were abused as children at Gippsland Grammar.
One of the worst offenders at Gippsland Grammar was Robert Gilfillan, a teacher with a long history of abusing female students in public and private schools.
On behalf of one of our brave clients, Rightside won $2 million in compensation from the school and the Victorian Education Department in relation to Gilfillan’s abuse.
Another former teacher who abused a Rightside client as a child was Maxwell Hickey.
At least three other former staff members abused students at the Anglican school.
In 2014, English teacher Gregory Thomas Gorton, then aged 30, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female student.
In 2019, former teacher Phillip Douglas Hazeldine was handed a wholly suspended jail sentence for sexually abusing a boy during a week-long school excursion in the 1980s.
Hazeldine offended against students in the classroom, during remedial reading lessons and when taking children on school camps and overnight stays.
In 2020, former tutor Tristan Van der Watt was sentenced to three years’ jail with a non-parole period of 20 months after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual penetration of a child aged under 16.
If you have any further information or you want legal advice in relation to any of these men or other abuse that occurred at Gippsland Grammar, please call 1300765702 or complete the confidential enquiry form below.
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