FORMER archbishop of Sydney George Pell takes the stand at a hearing on Monday to answer questions on how he handled an abuse complaint by former altar boy John Ellis.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse enters the third week of a hearing in Sydney in which Dr Pell's senior associates have been grilled on why the archdiocese disputed in court that Mr Ellis had been abused when an internal church process had accepted his allegation as true.
Dr Pell is expected to shed light on his role in instructing the church's legal team, which "vigorously defended" the case. It ended in a landmark finding, which some say created church immunity from abuse-related civil actions.
Mr Ellis was a 13-year-old altar boy at Bass Hill in Sydney in 1974 when Father Aidan Duggan first sexually abused him.
In 2002 Mr Ellis sought help from Towards Healing, the internal church process for dealing with victims of abuse.
In the past two weeks the commission has heard how that process failed and Mr Ellis sued Dr Pell and the trustees of the archdiocese.
Witnesses have included Michael Casey, Dr Pell's private secretary, and Monsignor Brian Rayner, the then chancellor of the archdiocese.
Mons Rayner's evidence contradicted Dr Pell's claim that he did not know Mr Ellis was willing to settle at one stage for an ex-gratia payment of $100,000. The church spent $1.5 million defending the claim.
Dr Pell's evidence comes just before he departs for Rome to become financial head of the Vatican and Holy See.
The commission has already heard a statement from Dr Pell that said: "Whatever position was taken by the lawyers during the litigation, or by lawyers or individuals within the archdiocese following the litigation, my own view is that the church in Australia should be able to be sued."
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