The Catholic Church will continue to use a controversial legal
defence to block victims of clerical abuse from seeking compensation,
despite a promise to abandon the practice having been backed by Cardinal
George Pell.
The church's backflip comes as the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse sits today for a three-week hearing into decades of horrific abuse in the Diocese of Ballarat.
http://www.watoday.com.au/victoria/church-to-block-victims-court-bids-despite-promise-to-abandon-practice-by-pell-20150517-gh3jkr.html
The church's backflip comes as the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse sits today for a three-week hearing into decades of horrific abuse in the Diocese of Ballarat.
http://www.watoday.com.au/victoria/church-to-block-victims-court-bids-despite-promise-to-abandon-practice-by-pell-20150517-gh3jkr.html