by Steph Chafer | Jul 19, 2021 | Not for Profit & Social Enterprise
Amendments to the Limitation of Actions Act 1958 (‘the Act’) in 2015 saw the introduction of division 5 into part IIA which removed the limitation period for actions arising out of death or personal injury resulting from child abuse. Included within division 5,...
by Steph Chafer | Jul 4, 2021 | Not for Profit & Social Enterprise
The two year review conducted by Ms Robyn Kurk AO found that the Scheme is not fulfilling the trauma informed objectives designed to assist survivors – citing its bureaucratic slowness, inconsistent and non-transparent decision making, and impersonal and...
by Steph Chafer | May 23, 2021 | Not for Profit & Social Enterprise
Lucciano (a pseudonym) v The Queen [2021] VSCA 12 (9 February 2021) – http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2021/12.html The Victorian Court of Appeal recently overturned convictions relating to an historical sexual assault case, for the perceived and...
by Lien Hoang | Apr 27, 2021 | Not for Profit & Social Enterprise
Coming into effect today ( 26 April 2021) are important amendments to prior settlement of claims subject to Part IIA Division 5 of the Limitations Act 1958 (Vic) (the Act). Section 27OA of the Act allowed claimants who settled their matters by deed or court order...
by nevettford | Jun 4, 2020 | Litigation, Not for Profit & Social Enterprise
On Tuesday 26 May 2020, Judge Chana Miriam Lomp of the Jerusalem District Court ruled Malka Leifer, former principal of the ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel School in Melbourne who stands accused of sexually abusing a number of her students, mentally fit to stand trial....
by nevettford | May 26, 2020 | Not for Profit & Social Enterprise
Various forms of lockdown have brought many of us to a ‘liminal space’. Limen is the Latin word for ‘threshold’, the space in-between. One might find themselves in a liminal space upon being thrust by life circumstances from where they once were to a place...
