News & Events
News & Events
Patrick Sadd spoke at a recent meeting of the APIL Abuse SIG (13.10.2016) on two areas: Fostering: vicarious liability and non-delegable duties and on Consent as defence in cases of historical sexual abuse. Fostering With the case of NA v Nottingham County Council coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court in January 2017, Patrick reviewed the decision at first instance and in the Court of Appeal, analysing the courts’ bases in rejecting the Claimant’s arguments that the relationship between foster parents and a local authority was akin to an employee/employer relationship so as to impose vicarious liability on a local authority for abuse perpetrated by foster parents on children fostered in their care. He also considered the courts’ rejection of the…
News 21 Oct, 2016
Patrick Sadd and Paul Livingston have been instructed as Junior Counsel to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, chaired by the Hon. Dame Lowell Goddard, DNZM. Patrick Sadd is to be Junior Counsel leading the investigation into Nottinghamshire Councils, assisted by Paul Livingston. Both come from having been Counsel to the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry for the last two years, investigating allegations of child abuse in Jersey’s care system over the past 70 years, the institutional responses and the management of children’s homes over the period. During the investigation, the Inquiry analyses the nature of the abuse that may have taken place under the care of Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Councils and consider how these authorities protected children…
News 15 Jun, 2016
Politicians and corrupt police officers were accused yesterday of covering-up the systematic child sex abuse by paedophiles on Jersey. Patrick Sadd, Counsel to the Inquiry, questioned Lenny Harper, retired Deputy Chief Officer of States of Jersey Police, who told the official inquiry that yachtsmen were “loaned” vulnerable children to abuse. For more information please click here to read more.
News 13 Jan, 2016
The second phase of the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry (IJCI) has just got underway. Counsel to the Inquiry, Mr Patrick Sadd, has provided a summary of Phase 1 and the witnesses who have given evidence so far – many raising allegations of abuse suffered in the care of the States. Evidence in Phase 2 will be heard from different groups of witnesses from various authorities: the States of Jersey Police (SOJP), the Honorary Police, politicians, law officers, former law officers and the Bailiff. Mr Sadd also listed some of the events between 1989 and 2010 that formed a backdrop to Phase 2, including convictions of abusers, the dropping of charges against alleged abusers and the establishment and closing down of…
News 20 Oct, 2015
Giving evidence to the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, Marnie Baudains, the retired directorate manager of Social Services, admitted that she was surprised when charges against Alan and Jane Maguire were dropped following an investigation in 1997. Patrick Sadd, counsel to the inquiry, read a statement from Mrs Baudains, who was a child care officer at the time. It said that she and her colleagues were ‘expecting a conviction ‘ when charges were brought against the Maguires in 1997, and that the service had ‘failed’ children in care. The pair left their role as housekeepers at the Blanche Pierre care home in 1990 following allegations of abuse, but Mrs Maguire was kept on in Children’s Services. Asked why she felt that Social…
News 5 Aug, 2015
Counsel for the Inquiry, Outer Temple’s Patrick Sadd, has been questioning both a former child care officer, and also an ex-staff member of the Haut de la Garenne home. Danny Wherry was a former Child Care Officer whose job in the 70s and 80s involved visiting youngsters in foster homes and institutions to check on their welfare, and he gave his evidence this week at the Inquiry into historical child abuse, as did ‘Mr K’, a former staff member at the Haut de la Garenne home at the centre of the Inquiry. Under questioning from Patrick Sadd, Mr Wherry stated he saw cases of neglect, including on one occasion where a door handle had been removed from a child’s bedroom…
News 20 Apr, 2015
In his opening address, Counsel to the Inquiry, Patrick Sadd said remaining witnesses who lived at the care home between 1970 and up until its closure in 1986, will tell of sexual abuse from staff, other children, those visiting the home and even in one case a child who was taken from home during the night. The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry is charged with finding out what went wrong in th island’s care system from the end of the Second World War. The panel holds hearings at its Seaton Place HQ. http://www.itv.com/news/channel/update/2015-01-14/staff-shortages-brought-into-question/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-30834994
News 16 Jan, 2015
Patrick Sadd spoke on Friday 26 September 2014 at the annual Cambridge Medico-Legal conference, to an audience of doctors, solicitors and barristers in Peterhouse College. He looked at a case study on the use of experts in litigation drawing on a recent abuse case in which the Claimant was seeking £5 million damages, Patrick Raggett v The Society of Jesus Trust 1929 for Roman Catholic Purposes [2012] EWHC 3132. The Court heard from 4 expert witnesses; the Judge preferred the evidence of only 1 of the 4. The case sets out the pitfalls of experts becoming advocates on behalf of one or other side. You can read more here.
News 28 Sep, 2014
This week at the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, Patrick Sadd and Harriet Jerram questioned witnesses about abuse in foster care and in care homes. Read the accounts in: The BBC: Jersey abuse victim ‘failed by social services’ Premier Christian Radio: Catholic Church contacted by care inquiry The Metro: Forced to sleep next to a dead nun: Public inquiry hears of horrific abuse suffered by children in Jersey care home
News 11 Sep, 2014
The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry has heard from its first witness to have been through the island’s care system. Giffard Aubin, 79, described harsh punishments, psychological abuse and bullying between 1943 and 1951. The panel also heard from Violet Renouf, who went into care in 1942, aged six. The £6.5m inquiry is investigating abuse in Jersey’s care system from 1945 to the present day. Patrick Sadd questioned Mr Aubin in the morning session and Harriet Jerram took Ms Renouf through her evidence in the afternoon of 12 August 2014. Read more on the Jersey Inquiry: BBC Independent Jersey Care Inquiry
News 12 Aug, 2014
Read the full transcript from day 7 here. More information on the inquiry: https://ijci-public.sharepoint.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-27839811 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-28408981
News 7 Aug, 2014
Patrick Sadd, instructed by Anthony Gold recently won damages of £350,000 for a claimant who was abused as a child and subsequently suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis and had an extensive history of self-harm and attempted suicide. The 45 year old was abused by the volunteer leader of a branch of a youth organisation. The case was settled on a global basis with no particular breakdown of damages. Patrick is a barrister who specialises in Child Abuse law, is currently working on the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry.
News 6 Aug, 2014
