Brothers found guilty

ment ordered by the AntiDiscrimination Tribunal more than three years ago, said people chasing up outstanding compensation payments were dealing with the same system as people chasing other debts.

But for victims of discrimination, unlike people who have been ripped off by a dodgy builder or over the sale of a car, it’s not about the money.

“What’s needed is a rapid way to enforce their [the tribunal’s] actions and that the cost of that doesn’t fall back to the person who’s just spent two or three years going through the Anti-Discrimination system,” Mr Browne said.

He said having to chase the money can add stress to the initial discrimination and the tribunal process that they have had to endure.

Mr Browne’s clients, Julian Punch and Brian Doran, took their Longley neighbour Benedict King to the tribunal over long-running vilification and discrimination. THE Anti-Discrimination Tribunal has found three brothers discriminated against former Zeehan man Alexander Devantier.

In a decision handed down in Launceston on April 2, the tribunal found the three had, on March 17, 2017, “yelled in loud voices and in an intimidatory manner verbal abuse about [Mr Devantier] including the words ‘faggot’, ‘poofter’, ‘you can’t hide all the time’, and, ‘our family will f… you up’.”

Mr Devantier told the tribunal he had moved to Melbourne because he no longer

Mr King was ordered by the tribunal in May 2016 to pay $6000 to Mr Punch and Mr Doran. It is believed he left Tasmania sometime in 2016. Mr Punch and Mr Doran are yet to receive the payment.

In late 2016, the couple lodged a caveat on two of Mr King’s properties.

Mr Punch said he had asked t hen- Anti- Discrimination commissioner Robin Banks to register the tribunal’s orders, but it was not done. He also met with then-Attorney-Genfelt safe on the West Cost and that he was receiving treatment from a psychologist.

Each brother was ordered to pay $2000 to Mr Devantier and write an apology, but they have not complied.

The Anti-Discrimination Commissioner has agreed to initiate criminal proceedings against the brothers for failing to provide the apology, but it is up to Mr Devantier to pursue the compensation.

In an unrelated case, Highland Lakes man James William Durston was fined $2000 in July for failing to comply with an order of the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.

In 2015, the tribunal found Durston had breached the Anti-Discrimination Act by distributing leaflets in Sandy Bay in 2013, in which he claimed homosexuals died prematurely and warned homosexuality should not be tolerated.

The tribunal ordered he make a public apology and publish a retraction in the Mercury. Durston failed to do so and was charged.

He pleaded guilty in the Hobart Magistrates Court to two counts of failing to comply with an order of the tribunal. Deputy Chief Magistrate Michael Daly also recorded convictions when he sentenced Durston on July 16.