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Differences in the Australian
and New Zealand justice systems could prevent two Catholic clergymen from
receiving a fair trial, their lawyer said in a Sydney court yesterday. The pair, aged 70 and
59 and members of the St John of God Order, were ordered to be extradited to New
Zealand by a magistrate in February. But they have fought
the order, applying for a rehearing in the Federal Court that started
yesterday. They face a total of 32
sexual assault charges relating to their time at Marylands School in
Christchurch in the 1960s and 1970s. Defence counsel Paul
Byrne told Justice Rodney Madgwick that in New Zealand an accused person
could face several complainants in the one trial, but that was not usually
possible in New South Wales. |
