Today\u2019s decision in GLJ v The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore has overturned the ruling that the Church is able to use so-called \u201cpermanent stays\u201d to block survivors of abuse from seeking compensation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that the High Court has rebalanced the law to protect survivors, there is an urgent need for national law reform so that cases which have been unjustly stayed before today can recommence. This is what happened when the Parliament changed the law to remove statute of limitation restrictions following the Royal Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens Senator for NSW and Justice Spokesperson David Shoebridge said: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is an important win for survivors who have increasingly been facing bully boy tactics from ruthless institutions seeking to avoid accountability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstitutions that have protected paedophile priests for years should not be able to use this as a reason to not face survivors in court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s now time to unfreeze all cases where survivors of abuse are affected by unfair and oppressive permanent stays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe now need urgent reforms to the law to overturn past permanent stays so survivors can have their day in court. Justice can\u2019t wait any longer.\u201d Senator Shoebridge said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sue Higginson Greens State MP and Spokesperson for Justice said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a good and just outcome and some survivors are breathing a deep sigh of relief. The work to achieve substantive justice must now begin for all of those survivors who have been denied justice, including those who have been forced into compromised settlements because of the Catholic Churches abuse of this legal power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI will do all I can in NSW to this end\u201d Ms Higginson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s decision in GLJ v The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore has overturned the ruling that the Church is able to use so-called \u201cpermanent stays\u201d to block survivors of abuse from seeking compensation. Now that the High Court has rebalanced the law to protect survivors, there is an urgent … Continue reading “JUSTICE UNFROZEN FOR SURVIVORS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23775,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions\/23775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}