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Lord’s ruling on sexual assault time limit

One of the country’s leading child abuse lawyers has welcomed the ruling by the House of Lords to hand discretion for setting time limits within which a sexual assault victim can make a complaint against their abuser, back to the courts. Tracey Storey from Irwin Mitchell said this “effectively ends the bizarre situation whereby child abuse victims over the age of 24 years of age couldn’t bring a claim against their abuser.”

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