AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald

Dec. 3, 2012

ON November 5 I contacted the Salvation Army about professional misconduct charges against two solicitors who represented it in a NSW Supreme Court compensation case brought by Bucketty man Graham Rundle.

Mr Rundle was repeatedly and savagely sexually assaulted by a Salvation Army officer at a Salvation Army boys’ home in South Australia in the 1960s.

I asked the Salvation Army to comment on its handling of Mr Rundle’s case, given that his rapist, William Ellis, was jailed for 16 years in 2009 after a truly extraordinary criminal trial in South Australia, and given the church’s sustained challenges to his ultimately successful compensation case.

In the email I noted the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner had referred professional misconduct recommendations against the two solicitors to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.