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MadWelshie
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Judge calls for abuse law change

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A senior judge has called for a change in the law which prevents victims of childhood abuse bringing a case for damages to the civil courts.

Currently, all damages cases must be brought within three years.

But Lord McEwan said that the rule meant a generation of abused children could have been failed by the law.

He ruled that the case of woman who claims to have been abused by a police officer 33 years ago could go to a full hearing despite it being time-barred.

A woman, known only as A, has alleged that the abuse began in 1975 when she was aged seven. The man she accused was convicted of abuse, but was later acquitted at the Court of Appeal in 2003.

I hope this goes through

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