Disaster from down under

The Times
October 14, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/disaster-from-down-under-mqgrw8tl0

A busive. Racist. Appalling. Intolerable. Catastrophic. The adjectives allegedly used by insiders to describe Dame Lowell Goddard speak volumes of the frustration that she engendered among colleagues. The New Zealand judge hired last year to run the ?100 million national child sex abuse inquiry has been branded a bigot who was out of her depth on some questions of English law.

Dame Lowell’s unsuitability for the post was clear within weeks to those working for her, as The Times reveals today. This raises serious questions about why she was ever appointed. Still more troubling is the fact that she was allowed…