Share on Twitter Media companies face uncapped penalties after admitting they breached suppression orders in publishing details of Cardinal George Pell's 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 Pell's five convictions have since been overturned by the High Court and he has returned to Rome. A contempt of court trial has been underway in Victoria's Supreme Court since November last year, beginning two years after charges were first laid. But the case resolved on Monday after the 12 corporations agreed to plead guilty to 21 charges of breaching a suppression order made by County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd.