Australia, May 14 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement:
1. BELL CJ: The amendment of the Limitation Act 1969 (NSW) and cognate statutes in other states and territories to remove any limitation period for common law claims of historic sexual assault was a response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
2. A body of case law relating to stays of proceedings, litigated through to the High Court, has grappled with some of the forensic challenges which can confront a defendant or defendants in such cases as a result of litigation in relation to events many decades ago: see, for example, GLJ v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore [20...