Abuse Inquiry to Sit Earlier after Request from George Pell

By Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
February 11, 2016

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THE child abuse royal commission has announced it will sit early to accommodate a request from Cardinal George Pell.

The Cardinal is expected to give evidence from the Vatican over three days from February 29.

He was expected to attend the hearings in person but was this week successful in an application to testify to via videolink because of ill health.

The decision was made by commission chair Justice Peter McClellan who said he would have preferred for Pell to return to Australia for the hearings.