Court finds for middle aged abuse survivor who was too dissolute to apply by the deadline. Ireland’s Court of Appeal last week potentially cleared the way for
thousands of people in this country who attended the country’s notorious
industrial schools but missed the deadline for compensation from the
Residential Institutions Redress Board.
Mr Justice Gerard Hogan, on behalf of the three-judge Appeal Court,
quashed a High Court decision agreeing with the Redress Board that a
58-year old man had applied too late under the compensation scheme. His
claim can now be reconsidered.