Robert Porter, a long-time resident of Waterloo’s public housing estates in inner Sydney, was visited numerous times by sales agents holding out the promise of free education and a free computer. But Porter, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident and survives on the disability support pension, received only one thing: a $15,000 debt.
“It’s pretty clear-cut from our perspective that Robert and other clients simply have no understanding about what they are being signed up to, and often no real capacity to give genuine consent, and it’s done with this inducement of a free computer,” says [RLC solicitor Will] Dwyer.
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