R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND,LORD CARSWELL,LORD BROWN OF EATON-UNDER-HEYWOOD,LORD WALKER OF GESTINGTHORPE,LORD HOFFMANN |
| Judgment Date | 30 January 2008 |
| Neutral Citation | [2008] UKHL 6 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 30 January 2008 |
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Archbishop Michael George Bowen (1st Appellant) The Scout Association (2nd Appellant) v JL
...The judge was referred to many well-known authorities on the exercise of discretion under section 33 of the 1980 Act, including A v Hoare [2008] UKHL 6, [2008] 1 A.C. 844, Cain v Francis [2008] EWCA Civ 1451, [2009] QB 754 and B v Nugent Care Society [2009] EWCA Civ 827, [2010] 1 WLR 516 ......
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Peter John Sebastian Murray v Father Martin Devenish (Provincial Superior of the London Province of the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Sued on his own behalf and as a representative of all other members of the unincorporated association known as the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus)
...the House of Lords in Stubbings v Webb [1993] AC 498. However, Stubbings v Webb was overruled by the House of Lords in 2008 in A v Hoare [2008] 1 AC 844. 66 I have said that the Defendant, Father Martin Devenish, is sued in a representative capacity on behalf of the Order which, it is accep......
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GH v The Catholic Child Welfare Society (Diocese of Middlesbrough) and Others
...known their application to cases of deliberate sexual abuse has been the subject of judicial interpretation over the years. In A v Hoare [2008] UKHL 6 the House of Lords provided much needed clarification of a number of issues which signalled a change in approach to the issue of limitation ......
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CD v The Catholic Child Welfare Society (Diocese of Middlesbrough) and Others
...known their application to cases of deliberate sexual abuse has been the subject of judicial interpretation over the years. In A v Hoare [2008] UKHL 6 the House of Lords provided much needed clarification of a number of issues which signalled a change in approach to the issue of limitation ......
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2 books & journal articles
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Improving the potential of tort law for redressing historical abuse claims: the need for a contextualized approach to the limitation defence.
...(7) Although there is always the chance, however remote, that the perpetrator's financial situation might change. See e.g. A v Hoare, [2008] UKHL 6, 2 All ER 1, 2 WLR 311 [Hoare] (the defendant won 7 million [pounds sterling] in the lottery while serving a life sentence for the abuse he com......
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Mixed messages on sexual assault and the statute of limitations: Stingel v. Clark, the Ipp 'reforms' and an argument for change.
...v Clark with approval, took the relatively rare step of overturning its own decision of Stubbings v Webb in the case of A v Hoare [2008] 2 All ER 1 : see below Part (14) Stingel v Clark (2006) 226 CLR 442, 459-60 (Gleeson CJ, Callinan, Heydon and Crennan JJ), 483-5 (Hayne J). It was not nec......