Two survivors of alleged child sex abuse win their High Court battle to sue those who placed them in care in the 50s and 60s.
Two survivors of alleged child sexual abuse have been permitted by the High Court to sue those who placed them in care in the 50s and 60s.
The cases include a woman wanting to sue the Queensland government over abuse she allegedly suffered, and a man who says he was abused at the Salvation Army's Nedlands boys' home in Western Australia. The woman lodged the case seeking compensation for damages for negligence based on psychiatric injury as a result of alleged sexual and serious physical abuse while in the care of the state.
But the case had been thwarted by a court order which has placed a permanent stay on the claim, on the basis most of those involved, including the alleged perpetrators and witnesses, are now dead.In a similar case, a man who claims he was sexually abused at the Salvation Army Nedlands boys' home was also barred from seeking compensation by a permanent stay on his case.The man said the Salvation Army property trust, which he had taken to court, is vicariously liable for the harm he suffered.
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