AUSTRALIA
Lawyers Weekly
Slater & Gordon has declined to comment on allegations that it “forced” a victim of sexual abuse to sign a settlement in the firm’s class action against Christian Brothers-run institutions.
Edward Delaney and Gordon Grant gave evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today (30 April) in Perth. Both victims spoke about sexual abuse that occurred at Bindoon Farm School.
Delaney described a subsequent class action by Slaters, which was launched in the 1990s, as “a joke”, reported SMH.
He claimed that he was told by the firm that if he didn’t take a settlement offer of around $3000 he would “get nothing”.
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