UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
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A victim of historical child sexual abuse has launched a legal challenge to the choice of Fiona Woolf as the chair of the inquiry investigating the issue.
A judicial review application, seen by the BBC, claims she is not impartial, has no relevant expertise and may not have time to discharge her duties.
Labour wants Mrs Woolf to meet abuse victims amid concerns over her links to former home secretary Lord Brittan.
Downing Street said it had “full confidence” in her doing the job.
The BBC’s assistant political editor Norman Smith said he believed the government would do everything it could to “cling onto” Mrs Woolf given that her predecessor in the role had already stood down and the inquiry was being asked to produce an interim report by the end of March.
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