01.11.23

Matthew Blundell

The Grace Tame Foundation calls on State and Territory governments to enact legislation after the High Court’s landmark decision in GLJ to eradicate permanent stays in Historical Child Abuse claims and to re-open past settlements entered into under the threat of permanent stays. The Foundation alongside survivors and their advocates have called on governments to enact legislation in particular, they note that legislation will be needed to ensure that the clear intent of the majority of the High Court and the Royal Commission is faithfully enacted and to ensure that claims of this kind are determined on their merits. They have also called for reform to permit those survivors who in the past years have been coerced into accepting manifestly inadequate settlements because of the threat of a permanent stay.