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Government and church liability established

1995-2005
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During this decade, residential school court cases established the principle that the government and church could be legally liable for the sexual abuse of children, as they had brought the child and abuser together (“vicarious liability”). These cases included, among others, the 1998 court case brought by twenty-seven Survivors of Alberni Indian Residential School against the United Church of Canada (Blackwater v. Plint, 1998 CanLII 13299) and the 1999 case brought by a Survivor of St. George’s Indian Residential School against the Anglican Church of Canada (F.S.M. v. Clarke, 1999 CanLII 9405 (BC SC)).

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