EDITOR'S NOTE: The High Court overturned Cardinal George Pell's conviction for historical child sex offences in a judgment handed down April 7, 2020. In a unanimous decision all seven High Court judges found Victoria's Court of Appeal should not have upheld Pell's conviction It found the evidence could not support a guilty verdict.

Crown prosecutors will on Thursday reject the 13 reasons given by George Pell's lawyer to explain why it was "impossible" for the cardinal to be guilty of sexually abusing two choirboys in the 1990s when he was archbishop of Melbourne.