Queensland may face damages bill for unlawful detention of children in watch houses, lawyers say

Dylan Voller's solicitor argues new law retrospectively legalising practice could be successfully challenged

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The Queensland government could still face a damages bill in the tens of millions of dollars, some lawyers say, despite retrospective legislation exempting it from liability for holding children in adult police watch houses.

Dylan Voller's lawyer Peter O'Brien, the solicitor behind the class action against the Northern Territory's Don Dale youth detention centre, said he believed the retrospective legislation could be challenged in court.

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