Irish Abuse Inquiry Head Cautions Australia against Holding "Mini-trials"

By Peter Wilson
The Australian
November 13, 2012

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/irish-abuse-inquiry-head-cautions-against-abuse-inquiry-should-avoid-mini-trials/story-fngburq5-1226515816584

THE IRISH judge who conducted the only national child abuse inquiry similar to that proposed by Julia Gillard has urged her not to impose restrictive time limits on Australia's royal commission, and to stop it getting bogged down in hundreds of miniature criminal trials.

High Court Justice Sean Ryan said the success of his 2009 report into abuse in Ireland owed much to its strategy of choosing ?samples? of abusive incidents rather than getting tied down in the details of every allegation made against an institution.