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Victoria's $40million legal bill to defend botched Covid quarantine
- Victoria settles Covid hotel quarantine class-action for 125 million, ending years of litigation.
- Initial reports warned of a possible $40 million legal bill to taxpayers for defending the quarantine program.
- About 16,000 businesses registered to join the class action over the second wave outbreak.
- Settlement may avoid high legal costs as the state faced a landmark pandemic-related case.
- Victoria endured Melbourne’s longest lockdown, affecting thousands of businesses.
- Inquiry linked the second wave to hotel quarantine breaches and guard hygiene failures.
- Frontbenchers said the settlement aimed to protect communities and manage costs.
- Court approval from Supreme Court of Victoria still required for the settlement.
- Case named former ministers Jenny Mikakos and Martin Pakula among those named in the action.
- Legal firm Quinn Emanuel represented plaintiffs on the class action.
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