The Court of Appeal have unanimously declared the ‘same roof’ rule incompatible with article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“the Convention”) and opened the way to compensation claims from victims of abuse perpetrated by family members living together before October 1979. Continue reading
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IICSA – redress related themes emerging from initial reports
Three reports have been published this year, the first two relate to investigations and the third is the over-arching interim report. Previous blogs have commented on these individually but it is clear that some patterns and key issues are emerging. Some of those relate to safeguarding and individual institutional responses. Others relate to issues associated with redress. These latter issues are considered below. Continue reading