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Court clears schools

STATE schools should not be held responsible for the acts of pedophile teachers and staff, the High Court said yesterday.
In a majority decision, it said an education authority would only be at fault if it acted negligently or the abuse occurred because the teachers were doing their duty.
The court decided two cases, one of which was brought by two former pupils Of former Queensland MP Bill D'Arcy, who is now in jail for sexual assaults he committed as a school teacher.
The state of New South Wales brought the other case after a lower court found it owed a duty of care to a boy who was indecently assaulted by a teacher in 1978. In this case the court ordered a new trial because the first trial was poorly handled.


AA- 7-2-2003
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