On March 13, 2019, Australia's most high profile churchman, Cardinal George Pell, was sentenced to jail for sexual abuse, despite protesting his innocence. On April 7, 2020, Australia's High Court agreed that the jury in the first court could not have found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and quashed his conviction.
Henderson's book reviews the facts and the process, both inside the legal court and in the court of public opinion, seeing Pell's trial as not just a trial of the man, but the trial of an institution.
How did so many Australians and Australian institutions, including the Supreme Court of Victoria, get it so wrong?