UNITED KINGDOM
RTE News

The British Court of Appeal has ruled that the Catholic Church can be held liable for the wrongdoings of its priests.

The decision was announced in an action which has been described as raising “an issue of wide general importance in respect of claims against the Catholic Church

In the British High Court last November, a decision was given in favour of a woman, who claims she was sexually assaulted as a child by a priest at a children’s home in Hampshire run by an order of nuns.

The judge held that, in law, the Church “may be vicariously liable” for the priests alleged wrongdoings.