Personal Injury Lismore Diocese Offering Low-Ball Settlements or DismissalWoman wins right to appeal to the high court decision to throw her case out on the grounds the now-dead priest was unable to defend himself.
Personal Injury Brooklyn Diocese and the New York Child Victim ActAs of June 2021, nearly 600 child sexual abuse lawsuits have been filed against the Brooklyn Diocese. These lawsuits were mainly for the diocese’s protection of priests abusing their parishioners, especially children.
Personal Injury How does the Church respond to child sexual abuse?Australia’s Royal Commission on the Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse found multiple and persistent failures of religious institutions to keep children safe, and a culture of secrecy and cover-ups that had devastating consequences for the entire life of the children who had suffered sexual abuse.
Call for Witnesses David O’Hearn Child Abuse – A Call For WitnessesKoffels Solicitors and Barristers are seeking witnesses to child sexual abuse perpetrated by Father David Anthony O’Hearn. The crimes occurred in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle north of Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time, O’Hearn served in various parishes.
Personal Injury New Queensland Law Reform Reaches into The ConfessionalOn 5 July 2021, amendments to the Criminal Code of Queensland (section 229BC) took effect, making it a crime for an adult who gains information…
Personal Injury Seven Virtues to STOP Sexual AbuseThe Seven Virtues to STOP Institutional Sexual Abuse The Royal Commission into Institutional Sexual Abuse identified a number of systemic issues within institutions which have…
