Whether the time bar of 1964 will still apply to any further proceedings being taken in connection with cases of historical institutional a…

The HistoricalAbuse Systemic Review: Residential Schools and Children’s Homes in Scotland 1950 to 1995 does not affect the law on damages. The Scottish LawCommission (SLC) Report on Personal Injury Actions: Limitation and Prescribed Claimswas published on 5 December. The report recommends, amongst other things, that claimsin respect of a personal injury extinguished by negative prescription before 1984(i.e. claims relating to events alleged to have taken place prior to 26 September1964) should not be revived and that a special category in respect of personal injuryresulting from childhood institutional abuse should not be created. The ScottishGovernment is currently considering all the recommendations contained in the commission’sreport. Ministers are very sympathetic to survivors of historic in-care/institutionalchildhood abuse and, as well as considering the recommendations in the SLC Report,specific proposals for survivors of historic in-care and institutional abuse arebeing developed as part of the wider Survivor Scotland Strategy.