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Advising the church is a seriously lucrative calling if your conscience can suffer it.

the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne’s “personal injury work” in July, a major power shift has been underway in the darkest crannies of the legal fraternity., longstanding adviser to the church and architect withof the 1996 “Melbourne Response”, the world’s first compensation scheme for victims of sexual abuse by clergy. And a sublime euphemism.Tanya Lake

Which rival shops Leder now lands at, or whether he’ll hang out his own shingle, remains an open question, but his annual billings from the Catholics alone were north of $4 million.The church’s child sexual abuse liabilities in Australia, as assessed by its own insurance arm, are estimated to be $1.4 billion. The lawyers’ KPI is to pay out the minimum dollar claims for liabilities they know exist and to maximise their own return as the adviser along the way.

 

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