Row over Damehood for Ousted Abuse Inquiry Chair

By Jenny Booth
The Times
December 31, 2014

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4310620.ece

Senior figures have sprung to the defence of Fiona Woolf, after she was criticised for accepting a damehood in the new year’s honours list despite her forced exit as the head of the government’s child sex abuse inquiry.

The retired judge Baroness Butler-Sloss said it was “very unfair” of MPs Simon Danczuk and Tom Watson to criticise the honour, and warned that if abuse survivors continued to veto potential leaders of the abuse inquiry then there was a risk the investigation would never get off the ground at all.