New laws of “agricultural claims” will be introduced in the most populous state in Australia to protect people from being pressured to present compensation claims, including sexual abuse.
The government of Nueva Gales del Sur said Monday that the laws would stop the “predatory practice” of pressing vulnerable people to present civil claims on issues such as child abuse, aggression or deprivation of liberty.
The repression occurs after seven “claims” farmers “were accused in February of promoting millions of dollars in false claims as part of a union, facilitated through Sydney law firms.
Police allege that the union has made claims, many of them potentially false, with a general value of $ 1.3 billion.
Attorney General Michael Daley said it was “abhorrent that people and organizations seek to benefit vulnerable people as survivors of victims of child sexual abuse.”
“The New Wales del Sur government is listening to the defenders who have requested a prohibition of this predatory and exploiter practice that worsens the trauma experienced by the survivors of the victims,” said Daley in a statement.
“We have carefully consulted with the community and we are moving to stop the damage inflicted by this atrocious behavior.”
The laws will prohibit a person from contacting another person to request it to make a relevant claim, according to the New Wales of the South.
They will also prevent a person from buying or selling a claim reference and will force lawyers who are sentenced to reimburse the legal costs received in cultivation claims.
The reforms do not inhibit that the victims of abuse have claims, which can be made directly contacting a lawyer, the government said.
The National Australian repair scheme, established in 2018 after the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, allows payments to those subject to institutional abuse.
So far more than $ 1.4 billion have been paid to around 15,000 successful applicants under the scheme, which includes government departments, churches and sports groups.
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