Barrister Neil Addison challenges
Robertson’s fiction passed off as fact
Oct. 2, 2010
The expatriate Geoffrey Robertson QC has returned to his homeland, Australia, to promote his work of fiction about the Vatican and sexual abuse that he’s presenting as factual truth, even when challenged about the facts.
Barrister Neil Addision, Director of the Thomas More Legal Centre, has written to the
Sydney Morning Herald in an attempt to expose Geoffrey Robertson’s flim flam:
‘Geoffrey Robertson is disingenuous in claiming he does not want the Pope arrested and blaming the media .
In the British newspaper The Guardian on April 2, Robertson specifically accused the Pope of a ”crime against humanity” contrary to the rules of the International Criminal Court. It is only the realisation that this suggestion has made him look ridiculous in the eyes of other lawyers that has caused him to backtrack.
As far as the legal status of the Vatican is concerned, Robertson is presenting his personal opinion that the Vatican should not be a state and pretending that he is putting forward a legal argument.
More importantly, Robertson is pretending that the legal status of the Vatican is protecting abusive priests, but the reality is that Catholic priests and bishops throughout the world are citizens of their individual countries and not the Vatican and they are answerable to national law.
No country has ever suggested that the legal status of the Vatican has prevented the proper investigation of any allegations of abuse by any Catholic priest.
Neil Addison
National Director
Thomas More Legal Centre
Warrington (England)
Protect the Pope comment: Neil Addison is to be congratulated for doggedly pursuing Robertson around the world in an attempt to expose him as the Dan Brown of the legal profession.