CANADA
CBC News
Lawyer Geoff Budden is hopeful that a civil suit by victims of abuse at the notorious Mount Cashel orphanage against the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s can proceed to trial this fall.
This follows a recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.
“I think this is an important step, that gets us closer, hopefully, to a resolution of these claims after all of these years,” Budden told CBC News.
The plaintiffs say they were victims of physical and/or sexual abuse at the former orphanage between the 1940s and mid-60s.
The Episcopal Corp. had applied to hold a separate trial — referred to in legal terms as bifurcation — to determine whether it was liable for the abuse at the orphanage, with the question of damages to be determined later.
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