AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
SEX abuse victims of priests in NSW may receive vastly higher compensation payments under a Greens proposal to let victims sue the Catholic Church directly.
Greens MP David Shoebridge says victims are missing out on potentially large payouts because they have to rely on mediation with the church.
They cannot sue the Catholic Church directly in NSW – unlike the Anglican Church – because of a 1936 state law that separated the church’s property trust from its pastoral duties, he says.
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