George Pell and the Lawyer Who Won't Stop Fighting

In December 2018, Cardinal George Pell was convicted of abusing two choirboys in the nineties during his reign as the Archbishop of Melbourne.

And as we know, two years later, the High Court of Australia quashed the convictions in what was a unanimous decision, and Cardinal Pell was immediately released from prison.

Sadly, one of the former choirboys died in 2014 of a drug overdose and his father was notified by Police about the alleged abuse of his son a year later.

The father launched legal action against Cardinal Pell and the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in the Supreme Court of Victoria, suing both the cardinal and church for "damages for nervous shock" relating to finding out about allegations of sexual abuse.

After a little argy-bargy brought by lawyers for the Church, Justice McDonald of the Victorian Supreme Court gave a green light for the deceased's father to commence proceedings as a "secondary victim"

The lawyer behind it all is Lisa Flynn, Chief Legal Officer at Shine Lawyers. In this episode of Law By Dan, I talk with Lisa about the case and her unrelenting fight in the pursuit of justice.

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