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Child Abuse: Local authority liability
Richard Scorer considers failure to protect claims ‘It will be difficult if not impossible for local authorities to rely on the limitation defences they have deployed in “historic” failure to remove claims.’ Over the last three years, since the revelations about Jimmy Savile, child abuse scandals have dominated the media. Many more victims have come …
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- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- JB and BB v Leicestershire County Council (2014) unreported, Nottingham County Court, 6 June
- KLB v British Columbia [2003] 2 SCR 403
- Lister v Hesley Hall Ltd [2001] UKHL 22
- Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2015] UKSC 2
- NA v Nottinghamshire County Council [2014] EWHC 4005 (QB); [2015] EWCA Civ 1139
- S v Walsall MBC [1985] 1 WLR 1150
- The Catholic Child Welfare Society v Various Claimants [2010] EWCA Civ 1106; [2012] UKSC 56
- Woodland (Appellant) v Essex County Council (Respondent) [2012] EWCA Civ 239
- X (Minors) v Bedfordshire CC [1995] UKHL 9