Beyond presumption?
Canon 220 of the Code of Canon Law encapsulates a principle common to both the civil and canonical traditions, namely: the presumption of innocence. In the field of safeguarding this irreplaceable component of justice has from time to time become obscured. This is not an issue confined to the Church or indeed, faith communities alone. It is a dilemma which is found to exist elsewhere under a number of guises. In the world of celebrity we have witnessed cases of excessively pu