High Court finds that Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Treated Survivors Unlawfully

The High Court has declared that eight survivors were denied fair procedures by the State’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which operated between 2015 and 2021. The report has been described as “fatally flawed” by survivors and the CLANN project. Based on the High Court’s findings, it has confirmed the urgent need to ensure that there is full access to the Commission’s archives and the redress scheme must be extended to include all affected by “forced family separation, illegal vaccine trials, forced labour, abuse as an adopted child, institutional abuse of any duration, and death inquests must be held into the deaths and disappearances of children and mothers.” This landmark decision is long overdue not only for the eight survivors but the thousands other affected. Child Identity Protection (CHIP) supports each and every move to ensure restorative justice, including complete re-establishment of identities.

Source : http://clannproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Clann-Press-Release_17-12-21.pdf