An 81 year old retired Irish cardinal, Desmond Connell, has gone to
the High Court in Dublin for a writ to stop his successor as Archbishop
of Dublin from handing over church files on paedophile priests to a
state-organised inquiry into clerical abuse of children.
He has called on the court to prevent the head of the Catholic Church in the Dublin diocese from handing over information about criminal priests to the government-appointed investigation. He has got an interim writ, freezing proceedings until there can be a full court hearing. He claims that some of the files contain solicitors’ advice to him, and therefore that they are privileged, exempt from scrutiny without his say-so.
http://www.workersliberty.org/node/23595
He has called on the court to prevent the head of the Catholic Church in the Dublin diocese from handing over information about criminal priests to the government-appointed investigation. He has got an interim writ, freezing proceedings until there can be a full court hearing. He claims that some of the files contain solicitors’ advice to him, and therefore that they are privileged, exempt from scrutiny without his say-so.
http://www.workersliberty.org/node/23595