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The Telegram
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By the end of today, the Mount Cashel civil trial could be done with arguments and in the hands of Justice Alphonsus Faour to decide.
Weather has hampered closing arguments this week but lawyers were back in court Friday. It’s possible they could finish up today or may have to sit for part of Saturday. The Catholic Church is represented by Toronto lawyers.
Faour’s decision will not come until sometime in 2017.
The case involves four test case John Does who say the Catholic Church should be held liable for abuse the boys suffered at the hands of certain Christian Brothers at the infamous orphanage during the era late 1940s to early 1960s.
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