Read the judgement summary issued by the High Court of Australia after it overturned George Pell's sexual abuse convictions.
Here is the judgment summary from the High Court of Australia.Today, the High Court granted special leave to appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria and unanimously allowed the appeal.
This was the second trial of these charges, the jury at the first trial having been unable to agree on its verdicts. The victims of the alleged offending were two Cathedral choirboys aged 13 years at the time of the events. Their Honours found that no witness could say with certainty that these routines and practices were never departed from and concluded that the jury had not been compelled to entertain a reasonable doubt as to the applicant's guilt.
On 13 November 2019, Gordon and Edelman JJ referred the application for special leave to a Full Court of the High Court for argument as on an appeal.
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