31 Jul 2006
A V ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE AND ORS HC WN CIV-2001-485-961
- Citation
- openlaw-e9dd55bc_3a62_402d_b782_41dd473c4946.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The Court held that the second (Catholic Social Services) and third (Sisters of Mercy Trust Board) defendants owed limited duties: the second to exercise social‑work oversight, monitor placements and act with care according to standards and resources of the time, and the third to provide physical care, schooling and to ensure discipline accorded with contemporaneous institutional norms; those duties did not extend to broad parental/in loco parentis obligations and the pleaded breaches were not established on the balance of probabilities; first and fourth defendants owed no duty; the second de…