AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
JOANNE MCCARTHY
7 Aug 2016
FORMER Newcastle Anglican Bishop Brian Farran will be questioned this week about why he told a church board he was placed in an “unnecessary and unfortunate pressured environment” after it made defrocking recommendations against four priests public.
The priests included former Newcastle Anglican Dean Graeme Lawrence.
NSW Local Court magistrate Colin Elliott after professional standards hearings in 2010 into child sex allegations against Lawrence, his partner and teacher Greg Goyette and Hunter Anglican priests Andrew Duncan, Bruce Hoare and Graeme Sturt.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse public hearing into Newcastle Anglican diocese was told last week that Mr Elliott will give evidence criticising Bishop Farran’s handling of the matter and subsequent changes to the professional standards board’s powers.
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