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	Robertson Questions Pope's Legal Liability over Priest Abuse The Bookseller August 13 2010 http://www.thebookseller.com/news/125784-robertson-questions-popes-legal-liability-over-priest-abuse.html Penguin is reviving the "Penguin Special" tradition with a book it describes as a "devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that has shielded paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world". The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse is written by prominent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC and will be published on 8th September, ahead of the Pope's visit to the UK on September 16th. The book explores whether the Pope is morally responsible or legally liable under domestic or international law for the negligence that has allowed crimes of child abuse to go unpunished and questions the Vatican's claim to statehood which has given it immunity from scrutiny. Robertson argues Pope Benedict XVI must divest himself of his devotion to obsolete canon law or be in breach of the convention on the Rights of the Child. Penguin Press' Stefan McGrath and Will Goodlad bought world rights to the book from Caroline Michel at PFD, and is publishing it as a "Penguin Special" in B-format (?5.99). The Penguin Special series, published between the 1930s and 1980s, covered topical issues of pressing concern by authoritative writers.
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