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Victims are given chance to sue over abuse
A Scottish judge has lifted a time bar in a landmark case that could help unblock thousands of potential civil actions for childhood abuse.Lord McEwan, in a Court of Session decision, has allowed a 43-year-old Glasgow man to sue the city's council over sexual abuse he claims to have endured at the hands of a carer in a children's home.
Council lawyers deny the allegations made by the alleged Glasgow victim but also said they believed his claims were time-barred.
Lord McEwan said his case should go to a full hearing. The judge said that, although the alleged abuse dated from the 1970s, the man began to suffer psychological effects only decades later and was therefore still entitled to claim.
Full story at The Herald.
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