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Advertisement A news website and a Sydney radio station failed to get legal advice before publishing reports that breached a suppression order about George Pell’s sex abuse conviction, a court has heard. Fourteen news outlets, including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, have admitted to a combined 21 charges of contempt of court for breaching a suppression order over reports published or broadcast in December 2018, in the days after Cardinal Pell was found guilty. Cardinal George Pe...

By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian media companies apologised in court on Wednesday for breaching a suppression order on reporting a child sex assault conviction, since overturned, of former Vatican treasurer George Pell in 2018. FILE PHOTO - Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell is surrounded by Australian police as he leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Dadswell A dozen Australian media outlets pled guilty for breach...

February 1, 2021 06:33:02 pm Twelve Australian media companies pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria Monday to contempt of court for breaching a gag order imposed by the County Court of Victoria preventing Cardinal George Pell from being named in the country as a convicted child sex offender until February of 2019. The guilty pleas are part of a plea deal ending the trial. The media companies charged included The Herald and Weekly Times, News Life Media, Queensland Newspapers, Nationw...

Guilty pleas bring abrupt end to George Pell media contempt trial Posted MonMonday 1 updated MonMonday 1 FebFebruary 2021 at 1:25pm Cardinal Pells child sex abuse convictions were overturned by the High Court and he has returned to Rome. ( Print text only Cancel Some of Australias biggest media companies have admitted to breaching a suppression order in publishing details of Cardinal George Pells since overturned conviction for child sexual abuse. Key points: The media companies included News ...

Share on Twitter Media companies face uncapped penalties after admitting they breached suppression orders in publishing details of Cardinal George Pells since-overturned convictions for child sexual abuse. Dozens of companies, reporters and editors were charged with contempt and breaching suppression orders over their coverage of the conviction, which was banned from publication in Australia until February 2019. Cardinal Pells five convictions have since been overturned by the High ...

Claims by some readers that The Age was part of a conspiracy protecting the Catholic Church and George Pell were a factor in the newspaper’s decision to publish its initial article about the cardinal’s conviction on child sex abuse charges, a trial has heard. The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and some of their journalists are on trial, along with other Australian media, over contempt of court charges stemming from reports they published and broadcast in December 2018, in the days a...

Advertisement Jurors, judges and lawyers are masked up, court rooms have been reassembled and hand sanitiser is at the ready – welcome to a jury trial in the time of coronavirus. The pandemic forced the traditionally archaic justice system to ditch the four walls of the court and run cases online. The Supreme Court jury sits in the body of the court, while the lawyers have been moved up to the side. Credit:Paul Jeffers Though plea hearings, bail applications and sentencing were heard over vi...