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23: Vicarious Liability of Churches for Sexual Abuse (Guest: Neil Foster)
Episode 23
Friday, 28 February, 2025
Late last year, in a case named Bird v DP, the High Court of Australia overturned a trial court’s finding that the Ballarat Diocese of the Catholic Church should be held vicariously liable for the sexual abuse committed by one of its priests in 1971. With me to discuss this important case is Associate Professor Neil Foster of Newcastle Law School, an academic who teaches and researches in the areas of torts, workplace health and safety, and law and religion. Learn more about Neil and his publications at his Newcastle Law School Staff Page and follow his writings on law and religion at his popular Law and Religion Australia blog. The case of Bird v DP can be found online on the High Court website here. Theme Music: "Sunbeams in the Stained Glass" Oleksandr Viktorovych Lukyanenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
