Media companies which defied an order of the Victorian County Court in the trial of Cardinal George Pell have been fined over $1.1 million by the state’s Supreme Court. The case is the latest legal twist in a saga that saw Australia’s most senior Catholic churchman imprisoned for over a year before being sensationally freed after a unanimous judgement by Australia’s highest court in 2020.
The Supreme Court found that media organisations refused to abide by a court order not to report or…
