Witness Appeal For Students And Staff Of Surrey School
Thursday, 22 June 2017
As brave abuse survivors continue to come forward following the conviction of Robin Carter, Peter Garsden – Child Abuse Solicitor – calls for witnesses to provide information. In April 2017, Robin Carter of Westmeston, now in his 70s, was convicted of 10 counts of indecent assault against boys aged between 10 and 12 years old.
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Child abuse solicitor appeals for witnesses of abuse at Manchester School
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Following earlier coverage in the M.E.N concerning the alleged child abuse at a Manchester Catholic primary school in Ancoats in the 1960’s, solicitor Peter Garsden of Simpson Millar is appealing for further people who attended the school, or more importantly worked at the school with the alleged abuser to come forward. John Mulligan, was headmaster
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Child abuse solicitor appeals for victims and witnesses of abuse by convicted ex teacher at Bristol school.
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
Monks Park School Christopher Flavin, 63, an ex-teacher at Bristol’s Monks Park School has pleaded guilty to sexual offences against a child and jailed for more than four and a half years. Sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday 24th November he was found guilty of eight counts of indecent assaults on a boy under
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Victims of Child Abuse in Manchester Homes refused entry to Group Action
Friday, 23 October 2015
Child abuse The High Court in Manchester over a 2 day hearing from 23rd to 24th September 2015 refused to allow 70 victims of child abuse, who had come forward after a cut off date imposed on 12th June 2014, to join the existing Manchester Children’s Home Group Action against Manchester City Council. Late joiners
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Solicitor appeals for witnesses of Danesbury School abuse
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Danesbury School abuse The Hertfordshire press have today reported on two of our clients who are suing Hertfordshire County Council for the suffering they underwent as victims of alleged sexual abuse, carried out by a deputy head teacher when they were former pupils of Danesbury School in Bengeo, Hertford. Police have confirmed allegations were made
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Arrests made over Thorp Arch Grange child sex abuse
Wednesday, 09 September 2015
The BBC has reported that three men have been charged with historical sex offences at Thorp Arch Grange Children’s Home in Wetherby. Arrested as part of Operation Polymer (an inquiry into abuse at children’s homes in Leeds in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s) the men are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on 2
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Child abuse solicitor appealing Manchester High Court deadline to allow Manchester Homes victims of abuse to seek justice
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Leading child abuse lawyer Peter Garsden of Cheadle Hulme firm, Simpson Millar, is appealing for people who were abused as children from the 1950’s to the 1990’s; in Manchester City Council run homes including Broome House in Didsbury, to speak out about the abuse they may have suffered. Mr Garsden is the lead solicitor representing
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Another institution ‘hoodwinked’ by manipulative Jimmy Savile
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
The BBC has reported on leaked memos revealing the extent of Jimmy Savile’s influence at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, where he took control in 1988, recommended by a senior civil servant to lead a task force to reform the hospital. The appointment was approved by Edwina Currie in her capacity as Health Minister when she had brief
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Three men charged with child abuse at Swaylands School in Kent
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Leading abuse lawyers, representing one of the victims of abuse at Swaylands School in Penshurst in Kent, have praised the bravery of their client whose statement to the police led to the arrest of his abusers. Three men, 73 old David Hennessy, 70 year old Colwyn Baker and 61 year old Nigel Putman have been
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