AUSTRALIA
The Catholic Weekly
April 4, 2020
By Peter Westmore
The High Court decision on Tuesday morning will be discussed in a livestreamed event at 7.30pm (details below)
Cardinal George Pell’s appeal to the High Court took place on March 11 and 12. The case was heard by a Full Bench of the High Court, which includes all seven justices currently on the court.
Cardinal Pell was not present – he is confined in Barwon Prison, a high-security facility in Victoria.
He was appealing against a 2:1 majority verdict of the Victorian Court of Appeal of last August. It has taken over six months for this matter to reach the High Court of Australia. He was not directly appealing against the original jury verdict, but against the majority verdict of the Court of Appeal.
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