Three recent court rulings have overturned
adjudicators’ decisions to deny compensation to people who were abused
at Indian residential schools, raising questions about how many other
former students have been unfairly refused redress.
As
the process created by the Indian Residential Schools Settlement
Agreement to provide compensation for the abuse nears the end of its
work, the court rulings – two in Ontario and one in Manitoba – suggest
that problems with decisions made by adjudicators are not always caught
in the reviews and re-reviews to which applicants are entitled.