A v Iorworth Hoare

SIR ANTHONY CLARKE MR LORD JUSTICE BROOKE Vice President, Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and LADY JUSTICE ARDEN ____________________

(Transcript of the Handed Down Judgment of Smith Bernal WordWave Limited 190 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2AG Tel No: 020 7421 4040 Fax No: 020 7831 8838 Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)

The Court of Appeal heard these three appeals together because they all had a common feature. The claim in each case was brought more than six years after the sexual abuse of which complaint was made (or, in two of these cases, after the schoolboys who had been abused had reached the age of 18), and the judges in the lower courts had held that their claims were all statute barred.

The facts in each case are set out in the Appendix to the judgment, which begins at para 138.

In A v Hoare (paras 116-118, 138-143), a serial sexual offender had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted rape of the claimant A. He had not been worth suing until he won �7 million on the National Lottery on a single lottery ticket bought when he was on day release from prison 16 years after the offence.