February 2021

Contempt and Suppression Down Under

By Peter Bartlett

PUBLISHED IN: MediaLawLetter February 2021

When the third most powerful man in the Vatican was convicted of molesting two choirboys by an Australian jury in December 2018, media companies scrambled worldwide. Yet in Australia, there was media silence on specific details of the case.

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