AUSTRALIA
The Australian
April 9, 2020
By Tessa Akerman and John Ferguson
Terry Tobin QC said that if the High Court was right about the possibility of the offences not occurring, an innocent man had been sent to jail for 405 days in what was one of the biggest injustices in Australian criminal history.
He said that in the medical field, root-cause analysis of misadventures was conducted, and the same standard of accountability was needed for the force and the OPP after the case was thrown out 7-0.
“That is a very high cost in our liberal democracy,” he said.
Mr Tobin, who provided a character reference for Cardinal Pell, said there were aspects of the case against Cardinal Pell that did not make sense.
“The coppers and the Director of Public Prosecutions would be assisted, I think, by doing a root-cause analysis, by figuring out dispassionately … what happened in this case,” he said.
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