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Gordonstoun Asking Ex-Pupils For Information About Abuse

Tuesday, 27 June 2017 by
After the Scottish independent school was included on a list of schools being investigated by the Scottish Inquiry into historical child abuse, Gordonstoun has taken a transparent approach by contacting 3,000 ex-pupils, asking for any abuse survivors to come forward. Our Peter Garsden discusses the steps the school has taken to encourage abuse victims to
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Top Child Abuse Solicitor Picks Up Lifetime Achievement Award

Monday, 12 June 2017 by
Manchester based Child Abuse Solicitor, Peter Garsden, has spent the last 22 years of his professional life supporting survivors of child abuse. His efforts have not been missed. He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Claims Management Awards. The Claims Management Awards was set up to celebrate the successes of those organisations
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Did Barnardo’s Destroy Documents As Part Of An Abuse Cover-up?

Wednesday, 07 June 2017 by
Following the first day of public hearings into the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, claims have been made that the UK’s leading children’s charity, Barnardo’s  purposefully and systematically destroyed files that contained evidence needed to bring abuse claims against them. Leading Abuse Solicitor, Peter Garsden, looks into the claims and discusses what this should mean for future
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Janner cases to continue

Monday, 29 May 2017 by
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It has been reported by the Telegraph and Leicester Mercury that 9 cases against Lord Janner have collapsed, as Slater and Gordon withdrew 6 cases against the alleged deceased abuser. Unsurprisingly, Janner’s next of kin, namely his 3 children, have jumped upon this development, and proclaimed it proves that the victims/survivors’ allegations are unfounded. The
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Operation Hydrant Continue To Receive New Football Abuse Referrals

Thursday, 13 April 2017 by
Operation Hydrant, the specialist unit set up to investigate allegations of child abuse at football clubs, continues to receive new referrals as the extent of the scandal continues to grow. Since former footballer Andy Woodward came forward and disclosed the abuse he suffered as a young footballer at the hands of a coach, Operation Hydrant
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New Campaign Calls For Establishment Of Compensation Fund For Football Abuse Survivors

Thursday, 23 March 2017 by
Football Abuse
Following his call for the FA to support smaller clubs that may not have the resources to cover compensation claims for historic abuse, Peter Garsden – President of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers – has established a petition to broaden the reach of his appeal. The petition calls on the FA and its membership
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Leading Abuse Lawyer Calls on FA to Support Clubs Caught up in Allegations

Thursday, 09 March 2017 by
Speaking after former football coach Barry Bennell was charged with eight further counts of non-recent child sexual abuse, leading child abuse lawyer Peter Garsden – who is head of one of the country’s largest specialist abuse departments at Simpson Millar LLP – is calling for the FA to offer clubs indemnity to ensure that abuse
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Lord Janner’s Family Receive Core Participant Status In Abuse Inquiry

Monday, 06 February 2017 by
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After being granted core participant status into the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) family members of the late Lord Janner have claimed that they will try to undermine the abuse inquiry from within. Responding to the decision, Peter Garsden – who is representing a group action against Lord Janner and Leicestershire County Council
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Why The Child Abuse Inquiry Is Right To Extend Its Truth Project To Prisons

Thursday, 02 February 2017 by
Truth Project
In a move that has been widely derided, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has taken its truth project to prisons in a hope to take reports from inmates who were allegedly abused as children. The move will see inquiry staff enter prisons and talk to inmates who were allegedly abused as children,
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Public Schools’ Attitude To Abuse Strengthens Case For Mandatory Reporting

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 by
Abuse
In the past three years more than 35 public schools have been embroiled in child abuse allegations with claims arising that a number of elite institutions are adopting a nonchalant attitude to child abuse in a bid to protect their reputations. The findings, which came after a Sunday Times investigation, have strengthened calls for mandatory
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