Alison. Long-term patient who suffered every conceivable abuse and neglect. Alison was born in 1942 in Auckland. At three years old, she became extremely ill with a rare form of chickenpox that caused inflammation to her brain. The inflammation

Background to the Crown’s approach. Defence of early claims. From the mid-1990s, a growing number of individuals began to make claims about neglect and abuse they experienced while in State care. The vast majority related to abuse at Lake Alice

The mindset of the Crown. Four factors coloured the Crown’s thinking towards these cases over the next decade:. Opening the floodgates. The first was a concern that settling claims too readily might encourage many more survivors to come forward,

How the Crown responded. Litigation strategy. Faced with a growing number of claimants, the Crown grappled with how to respond. Cabinet considered alternatives to litigation, such as an inquiry or out-of-court settlement process. However, ultimately

Result of the Crown strategy - Crown’s court successes deter prospective claimants. Survivors had some early successes in the courts. The judge in Leoni McInroe’s case refused the Crown’s application to strike out her claims without a hearing,

State agencies’ out-of-court claims processes. Four government agencies run in-house claims processes, each responsible for a care setting where abuse took place. To date, these claims processes have paid close to $48,000,000 in settlements to

Problems with State agencies’ claims processes. Given the haphazard way the claims processes came into existence and how they have scarcely changed since their establishment, it is not surprising they suffer from many defects. The processes have

Summary of findings. We find that in developing a response to allegations of abuse in care, the Crown:. adopted a strategy aimed primarily at managing financial and legal risk, rather than ensuring survivors were fairly treated. failed to recognise,

2.4: Faith-based institutions' processes. We examined the redress processes of 14 faith-based institutions. Some had reasonably well-developed processes, others basic ones, and others still had no processes at all. We concentrated on three

Catholic Church. Structure and governance of the Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand. The worldwide Catholic Church, sometimes called the “universal church”, is made up of many “particular” or “local” churches, each under the