We know emergency service workers, doctors and journalists can suffer from work-related trauma, but what is it like to be a lawyer on a sometimes distressing, long-term and high profile case?
Lisa Flynn is the head of the Abuse Law Department for Shine Lawyers in Australia, leading 15 lawyers who are acting for around 1,000 survivors of abuse.in a civil claim against the Catholic Church. Pell, 77, was sentenced to six years' jail in March for sexually abusing two choirboys when he was Catholic archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s."It does show that no-one is above the law, people can come forward, and there is support for them and they will be believed," she said.
How one man's testimony brought down George Pell, a giant in the Catholic Church, and Australia's most senior cleric.Ms Flynn said she chose to work in the abuse area of the law because she found it rewarding, but thatShe said being a mother with three young children could make it harder to work with people who were recalling horrific events from their own childhood."Sometimes you can't help but put your own children in that picture.
"That child [in the Pell case] was seven years old when that happened to them, and my son is seven years old."
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