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A Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for hundreds of former mental health patients to sue the government.
Nearly 300 voluntary patients and children admitted to psychiatric hospitals in the 1970s are now able to seek compensation for mistreatment.
Lawyer Sonja Cooper says the former patients' cases have been stalled for seven years and the court's ruling is welcome.
"To know that we can actually start progressing forward now and actually setting cases down for trial will be a very significant movement ahead for them," says Cooper.
The ruling clears up a drawn-out legal wrangle over whether the case could be heard in court at all.
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