Pells Appeal live stream

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It's annoying only having the judges to look at but the Prosecutor, Christopher Boyce QC, is pathetic. Absolutely pathetic! He is stumbling, stammering and bumbling his way into oblivion. Clearly the judges are even irritated by him.

They even have to try to clarify everything Boyce says after he has taken 5 minutes to stammer and stutter it out.

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Justice Anne Ferguson
Chief Justice Ferguson was among the Court of Appeal judges who decided to unmask Lawyer X and release thousands of documents revealing the identity of barrister turned police informer Nicole Gobbo. She was also among the appeal judges who decided to reduce the jail term of Akon Guode, the Melbourne mother who killed three of her children by driving them into a lake. She joined the Court of Appeal in 2014 and became Chief Justice in 2017.



President of the Court of Appeal Justice Chris Maxwell
Before he joined the Court of Appeal in 2005, Justice Maxwell had stints as the Legal Aid Commissioner and Liberty Victoria president, and once led action against the federal government for preventing the MV Tampa from bringing asylum seekers onto Australian soil. In 2015, when he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia for his “eminent service to the law and to the judiciary,” he said: ”Victoria's courts have increasingly become agents of change in the justice system, and I have been fortunate to be able to play a part in that process.”



Justice Mark Weinberg
Justice Weinberg, who served as a Federal Court judge from 1998 to 2008, sat on the Court of Appeal from 2008 until he retired in 2018 when he was named as a reserve judge of the Supreme Court. Born in Sweden, he was the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions from 1988 to 1991. Last year he presided over the trial of Bourke Street killer James Gargasoulas.

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Returning from lunch Mr Boyce dealt with the second episode of abuse which involved Pell pushing the chorister against a corridor.

Justice Weinberg said the chorister would have been at the front of the procession.

“To get to him (Pell) would have to get past or move past a whole bunch of choir boys,” he said.

He said it would have been a surprising event with risk and described it as “somewhat improbable.”

Summing up Mr Boyce said it was reasonably open to the jury to reach a guilty verdict.

“There’s a rational basis in the evidence to come to the conclusion... upon to convict,” he said.

The judges questioned Mr Boyce about whether jurors had an advantage in being present for the trial instead of having videos, exhibits and transcripts like the court.

Mr Boyce said the jury watched all of the trial unlike the appellate judges.

“If it helps Mr Boyce, I have said previously in judgments that juries almost always get it right,” Justice Weinberg said.

“But the word is almost.”

Live written stream ...

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Lawyer for the Crown also let slip the alleged victim's real name

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Lawyer for the Crown also let slip the alleged victim's real name

It wasn't a good day for the Prosecution.