Ex-lawyer who claimed £5 million for abuse is awarded £54,000

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

A former City lawyer who claimed that sexual abuse at his Jesuit-run school led him to make a mess of his life today won £54,923 damages.

Patrick Raggett had asked for £5 million on the basis that the four years of abuse he suffered as a child had caused recognised psychiatric disorders and behaviour which led to the loss of his legal career.

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