Clerical abuse in Northern Ireland

The Reference Group of Northern Ireland’s Interdepartmental Working Group set up to oversee research and develop recommendations relating to historical mother and baby institutions, Magdalene laundries and historical clerical child abuse more generally, may institute proceedings against the Northern Ireland Executive over its failure to respond to a report backing a public inquiry into clerical sexual abuse.

Irish Legal News reports that KRW LAW LLP has been instructed to issue formal pre-action protocol correspondence to the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) on behalf of members of the reference group, while Amnesty International has written to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in support of calls for a public inquiry. The report itself, submitted in July, has still not been published.

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