Not exact matches
The archbishop's letter pointed out that most of the sexual
abuse cases and allegations involve misconduct, real or
claimed, from decades earlier, «
before the Church adopted its current child protection policies.»
Thus, any
claim that we must follow the Matthew 18 progressive confrontation process
before reporting disclosures of child sexual
abuse to the civil authorities is simply wrongheaded: God's minister's — the civil authorities — must be informed first!
As I've explained
before, Custos provides a website that enables people to
claim bounties anonymously, and it includes many safeguards to prevent
abuse of the system.
That Manne manipulated his «hockey stick data» to produce a kink to «prove» AWG covering the industrial revolution to the present, is all the more amusing, not only for the juk science entailed in that
abuse of maths but also in the breath - taking silliness involved in altogther eliminating the record which,
before matters of science as laid out by Eshchenbach, simply makes nonsense of such
claims.
The firm represented Nationwide Airlines (as co-complainant with Comair Limited) against South African Airways (SAA) in relation to ongoing
abuse of dominance conduct, in contravention of the Competition Act, resulting in a damages
claim against SAA, which was heard
before the South Gauteng High Court in 2016.
They typically seek to punish repeated litigation
abuses (frivolous
claims, discovery requests and motions filed for harassment) by getting a judge's permission
before filing a lawsuit.
Bowden is relevant not only to civil
claims arising from
abuse many years ago but also to other personal injury cases where the defendant's alleged tort relates to circumstances long
before proceedings were issued, such as occupational illness
claims.
Later won summary judgment on
claims sounding in negligent hiring, supervision, retention, and breach of fiduciary duty based on the absence of knowledge of a propensity to
abuse by the leadership of the parish and the diocese
before the time of the
abuse.
WestJet attempted to have the
claim dismissed, arguing that the
claim should have been brought
before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, that the remedy of «disgorgement» (paying over money that was earned or saved by breaching the contract) is not available, and that the entire
claim is an
abuse of process.
For example, in a recent defamation
claim before the Ontario Superior Court an Ontario man successfully sued two of his nieces for loss of reputation based on their accusations of childhood sexual
abuse.
Civil
claims in respect of sexual assault and child
abuse are often characterised by long delays
before litigation is commenced.
The supervised visitation center will have made money, the parents will have lost money, the litigation will have remained open, the abusive parent will be even more angry and resentful, additional therapies and interventions will be recommended and tried (all as the
abuse fades into the past and
claimed irrelevancy), and overall, the entire situation will be even more miserable than it was
before for the victims.