IRELAND
Irish Mirror
BY JAMES WARD
Unlike the Commission on Child Abuse in 2002, victims will not be provided with free legal advice
Survivors of Ireland’s hellish Mother and Baby Homes are facing a €500,000 legal bill in their battle for compensation.
Unlike the Commission on Child Abuse in 2002, victims will not be provided with free legal advice.
The previous inquiry racked up more than €55million in lawyers’ bills but survivors were not asked to pay.
Support groups, already unhappy with the terms of reference for the probe, say this is another obstacle to justice.
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