I will be one of a number of speakers at a conference to be held next month entitled “Pathways to Justice for Survivors of Institutional Child Abuse”. The conference will be held on Sept 19-20 at the University of Technology, in Sydney- more details here. To be clear, it is not a specific “law and religion” event, and many speakers will not come from a faith-based perspective.

Of course institutional child abuse did not only take place in churches and religious institutions. But the great tragedy is that some did happen in those contexts, and churches and religious bodies need to be aware of appropriate legal responses, as well as changes to practices and pastoral care for victims. My presentation will discuss the possible development of an area of civil liability called “non-delegable duty”, whereby churches (and other bodies) may be held civilly liable for abuse committed by those who were caring for children while working for the body, even if the perpetrators were not employees (which would include most ministers of religion.)

Many of the papers will be from a fairly technical legal perspective, but for those interested this may provide an opportunity to find out how the law is responding to these issues. And as a presenter, I have been offered a discount code for registration which is available to readers of this blog! Using the code below will provide a 10% discount from registration up to the end of August.

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Website: pathways.openlaw.com.au