Cardinal George Pell has lost his appeal against his conviction for five charges of child abuse in 1990. In this guest post, Neil Addison, a criminal barrister and a former Senior Crown Prosecutor, discusses the case.
In George Pell v The Queen [2019] VSCA 186, by a majority of 2-1, Cardinal George Pell lost his appeal against his conviction for five charges of child abuse in 1990. There is a summary of the decision here.
The Appeal Court in Melbourne spent eleven weeks deciding whether or not the jury in the trial made the wrong decision. Continue reading