Category - compensation

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5 Feb 2013

TUC group wins over £310,000 for asbestos victims and their families

Advice Workers from the Northern TUC Asbestos Support and Campaign Group have secured nearly one third of a million pounds in compensation for asbestos victims.
30 Dec 2010

Church delay on Irish compensation payments to victims of clerical abuse

A question asked in the Irish parliament reveals that the Catholic Church has paid only a fraction of the compensation promised to victims of clerical abuse.
16 Jul 2008

UK Government 'must compensate' East Timor

A Catholic advocacy and development agency has called on the British government to fulfil its responsibilities to the people of East Timor, following a quarter-century of violence during which the UK supplied arms to Indonesia.
13 Nov 2007

Czech churches become financially distinct from state

The Czech government has agreed, after almost two decades of dispute, to compensate churches for properties confiscated under communist rule, and also to make them financially independent from the state. The details are being sorted.