Hundreds of individual child sex abuse victims with claims totalling
tens of millions of dollars may be free to sue the Catholic Church
thanks to the abolition of statute of limitations provisions in the ACT,
NSW and Victoria a Canberra lawyer has said.
Jason Parkinson of Porters lawyers said even though most of the 1700 victims who had been paid about $43 million [2013 figures] under the Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" program had signed deeds of release waiving their right to sue in the future these were now open to challenge.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/church-faces-a-flood-of-claims-once-child-sex-abuse-time-limit-is-abolished-20160808-gqnc3h.html
Jason Parkinson of Porters lawyers said even though most of the 1700 victims who had been paid about $43 million [2013 figures] under the Catholic Church's "Towards Healing" program had signed deeds of release waiving their right to sue in the future these were now open to challenge.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/church-faces-a-flood-of-claims-once-child-sex-abuse-time-limit-is-abolished-20160808-gqnc3h.html