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Review of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia by Sinead Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson. Routledge, 2022, 350pp (£104 hardback) ISBN: 978 1 138 60535 0

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Review of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia by Sinead Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson. Routledge, 2022, 350pp (£104 hardback) ISBN: 978 1 138 60535 0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2023

James Gallen*
Affiliation:
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society of Legal Scholars

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8 Ibid, p 54.

9 Ibid, p 55–57.

10 Ibid, p 115.

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