Peter Ball

Solicitor ‘recklessly disregarded the risk of harm’ when he represented serial abuser Peter Ball

A FORMER legal adviser to the diocese of Gloucester, Christopher Peak, who represented the serial abuser and former diocesan Bishop, Peter Ball, in the 1990s, has agreed to remove his name from the roll of solicitors

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LORD CAREY, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has had his Permission to Officiate (PTO) restored, the diocese of Oxford announced on Monday afternoon

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IICSA report: Church was ‘a hiding place for abusers’

FOR decades, the Church of England has contradicted its “moral purpose” by failing to protect children and young people from the hundreds of sexual predators within its ranks, the national child abuse inquiry has concluded

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11 Jan 2020

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Peter Ball, disgraced former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester, dies, aged 87

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