Legal professionals say authorized claims of historic abuse at Celtic Boys Membership have been settled for a seven-figure sum.
About 30 former gamers had launched a class motion against the membership for damages.
Thompson’s Solicitors stated that 70% of these circumstances had now been settled and that additional settlements were anticipated within the coming weeks.
Celtic had indicated in the final 12 months that it was looking to settle the circumstances.
A number of former coaches and officers on the boys’ membership have been convicted lately of sexual offences towards teenage players spanning a long time.
In 2023, a decide gave the go-ahead for a US-type “class action” group litigation to proceed against Celtic for alleged abuses at Celtic Boys Membership.
The boys’ membership was established as a feeder group to the senior Celtic facet in 1966, and the 2 golf clubs had close ties, sharing players, officers,s and premises.
Celtic had at all times insisted that it wasn’t accountable as a result of the boys’ membership being an “entirely different organisation”.
However, legal professionals appearing for the previous gamers argued that the boys’ membership and Celtic were “intimately linked” and the senior membership was “vicariously liable” for assaults carried out.
The litigation pertains to historic claims of sexual assault by convicted paedophiles Jim Torbett – the founding father of the Boys Membership – and Frank Cairney, a former coach.