The New South Wales branch of the Scout Association of Australia has been permanently shielded from an abuse survivor’s compensation claim despite the fact the paedophile former Scout leader remains alive and available to give evidence about his former employer’s child protection systems.
The NSW supreme court recently ruled that Scouts was unable to have a fair trial in a survivor’s civil case, which alleged that the organisation failed in its duty to protect him from abuse by former Scout leader Paul Hayes in Toongabbie in the 1970s and 1980s.
