A four-week jury trial in a historical Catholic sexual abuse case was supposed to begin Monday at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, but an “11th-hour” bankruptcy declaration by one of the defendants has delayed the proceeding.

Delta resident Nicholas Harrison is suing the Presentation Brothers of Ireland and two deceased members — Dennis O’Mahoney, a school principal known as Brother Leopold, and Vincent James, a teacher known as Brother Paschal — over claims of sexual, physical and psychological abuse while Harrison was a student at Sacred Heart Elementary School in Prince George between 1973 and 1977.

The Presentation Brothers is an international religious order of Roman Catholic laymen whose primary purpose is education of young people.

Harrison’s civil suit, which started in 2022, in

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