Two figures at the centre of a dramatic child welfare controversy have begun a personal court action against two government officials they say have been persecuting them over the matter.
The civil prosecution by Paul Robert Burton and Andrew Katelaris against a former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, Lloyd Babb, and high-profile public servant Michael Coutts-Trotter - a former head of Family and Community Services (FACS, as it was known then) - began the first of five scheduled days today in the Sydney District Court before Judge Robert Weber.
