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Cardinal George Pell has apologised and admitted he made mistakes in dealing with the case of a former altar boy who had been abused by a Catholic priest.
Cardinal Pell, however, denied he had ever told Mr Ellis he had been the victim of “legal abuse” after his case made it to the Supreme Court.
Mr Ellis, 52, now a lawyer, told the commission that Cardinal Pell used the term in 2009, five years after losing his court case.
“I am unsure what precisely Mr Ellis meant by ‘legal abuse’,” he told the commission.
“I did not use the term ‘legal abuse’. I did not regard the mere defending the litigation as legal abuse.”
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