The High Court overturns Catholic Cardinal George Pell's child sexual abuse convictions. So what happens now?
Mr Porter, who is also in charge of parts of the Government's coronavirus response, said he would work with his state counterparts to release more of the royal commission's final report."It does require some liaison between my office and Victorian authorities, investigative and prosecutorial, to make sure that further tabling with less redactionHe said he expected that process would take"a couple of weeks".
"My strong preference is to have as much of the information that has been redacted tabled with less redaction," he said.Will this impact civil action? A number of civil cases are set to be launched against Cardinal Pell, either by people who allege they were abused by him or who allege he did nothing to prevent their abuse at the hands of other priests.There is a lower standard of proof required in such cases., whereas the threshold for a civil case isThe father of one of the boys who Cardinal Pell was originally convicted of abusing has previously vowed to pursue the Catholic Church and Cardinal Pell for damages.
The former choirboy died from a drug overdose in 2014 and his father claims his son had post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from Cardinal Pell's alleged crimes.Cardinal Pell is also being sued in the Victorian Supreme Court by a man abused by
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