AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
By Josie Taylor
Cardinal George Pell has made a court application to find out sensitive information about a sex abuse victim, before Australia’s most senior Catholic gives evidence at Victoria’s parliamentary inquiry into church abuse.
The ABC was the only media present in the hearing before Judge Roy Punshon in the Victorian County Court this morning.
Barrister Marcus Hoyne, acting for Cardinal Pell, said the matter was somewhat urgent, as his client might have to give evidence at the inquiry before the end of this month.
Mr Hoyne told the court Cardinal Pell was seeking evidence from the trial of convicted paedophile and former Christian brother Robert Best.
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