Date of Award
1999
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
This thesis examines the genesis of society's awareness of the problem of child sexual abuse as well as changes in the legal system to the prosecution of child sexual offence cases and then situates the problem within the educational system in British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Ontario. Thereafter, there is an examination of the panoply of remedies that the legal system provides to victims of sexual misconduct by educators. Conversely, it also analyses whether it is fair that educators who engage in such conduct should be faced with a multiplicity of proceedings before many different institutions. Further, the efficacy of these institutions in each jurisdiction is analyzed. In evaluating the efficacy of the institutions, one factor examined is the impartiality of the decision-makers and whether they treat same and opposite sex abuse cases alike.
Recommended Citation
Barbara J. Murray, Sexual Misconduct of Educators: A Comparison of Decisions of Courts and Tribunals in British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Ontario (LLM Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1999) [unpublished].
