Stay of proceedings - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 27 Sep 2015 07:20:17 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Stay of proceedings - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Aussie prelate seeks stay in abuse concealment case https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/29/aussie-prelate-seeks-stay-in-abuse-concealment-case/ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:09:21 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=77198 Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson's lawyer has sought a permanent stay of proceedings in a case where the prelate is accused of concealing child abuse. Archbishop Wilson has previously pleaded not guilty to concealing the serious indictable offence of another person. The charge relates to when Wilson was an assistant parish priest in the 1970s and Read more

Aussie prelate seeks stay in abuse concealment case... Read more]]> Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson's lawyer has sought a permanent stay of proceedings in a case where the prelate is accused of concealing child abuse.

Archbishop Wilson has previously pleaded not guilty to concealing the serious indictable offence of another person.

The charge relates to when Wilson was an assistant parish priest in the 1970s and worked with paedophile priest James Fletcher.

Wilson's lawyer sought a permanent stay of proceedings.

He also told Newcastle Local Court he would be filing an application seeking a court attendance notice be quashed.

The magistrate has set a date for a one-day hearing in December to hear the legal argument from both sides.

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