A choose is authorizing a class-action lawsuit in opposition to the Catholic archdiocese of Quebec introduced by victims of alleged sexual abuse.
The category motion was filed in 2020 and covers alleged sexual assaults dedicated from 1940 to the current day.
Montreal legislation agency Arsenault Dufresne Wee, which is representing the plaintiffs, says the lawsuit is the primary class motion focusing on all of the members of a selected archdiocese who allegedly dedicated sexual assault.
The category motion covers anybody who was sexually assaulted -- together with heirs of victims -- by clergy or lay personnel who had been below the duty of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Quebec or the Roman Catholic archbishop of Quebec.
The Quebec archdiocese covers a area that features the higher Quebec Metropolis space and neighbouring Chaudiere-Appalaches, Charlevoix and Beauce areas.
Arsenault Dufresne Wee welcomed the ruling in a press release and stated that greater than 88 alleged victims have come ahead.
Quebec Superior Court docket Justice Bernard Godbout heard arguments in April and approved the lawsuit in a written ruling issued Thursday.
- This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Could 20, 2022.
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