Sentences with phrase «historic abuse claims»

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The scandal there could open a historic chapter in the abuse crisis, church watchers say, changing the way the American criminal justice system deals with church abuse and challenging the church's claims that that reforms adopted in the wake of the Boston scandal have largely rooted out abuse.

Its expertise covers a wide range of personal injury matters, from industrial disease cases to employers» and public liability, and has a substantial track record handling historic sex abuse and grooming claims.

In Raggett v (1) Society of Jesus Trust 1929 for Roman Catholic Purposes (2) Preston Catholic College Governors [2010] EWCA Civ 1002, [2010] All ER (D) 116 (Aug) it was held that in a sexual abuse claim where the abuse was historic, the order in which the judge approached issues of liability and limitation did not affect the substance of an overall assessment as to whether it was appropriate to exercise judicial discretion under the Limitation Act 1980, s 33 to disapply the limitation period.