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THE FIRST OF a number of legal cases calling for the Government’s redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby institutions to be extended is due to come before the High Court next week.
The case was originally due to be mentioned today but was pushed back until next Monday, 21 October, as a document was missing from the case file.
Judge Mary Rose Gearty said the case would be mentioned next week instead.
John Duncan-Morris, who spent time in Bessborough institution in Cork and St Joseph’s in Stamullen in Meath, is taking legal action against the State.
The 57-year-old is one of thousands of survivors excluded from the redress scheme. He only spent three months in Bessborough, before being moved to Stamullen.
The Bessborough institution is included in the scheme, but John didn’t spend the required six months there in order to be eligible for redress. St Joseph’s, where …