Time Periods for Child Abuse Claims
June 05, 2008
January 2008 saw the end of a long battle for us, when we took a test case to the House of Lords to challenge the time limits for bringing a child abuse compensation claim. Survivors of child abuse have particular difficulties in coming to terms with what happened to them in the past, and many feel unable to instruct a lawyer until many years afterwards. As a result of our legal challenge, which was supported by a parallel campaign to lobby MPs, and which received the support of the media, we secured a dispensation of the time limits in appropriate cases – which hadn’t been available in cases brought for direct assault before. Jonathan Wheeler was named one of the Hot 100 lawyers of the year in 2006 by The Lawyer Magazine as a result of his campaigning work in this area. See X & Y v London Borough of Wandsworth and our child abuse team’s ‘success stories’.
Contact Jonathan Wheeler if you want to get involved.