UNITED KINGDOM
The Mail on Sunday
By Martin Beckford for The Mail on Sunday
The troubled historic child abuse inquiry is so wide-ranging and costly it risks ‘breaking the system’, one of Britain’s most senior ex-judges has warned.
Lord Woolf said he feared Dame Lowell Goddard faces a ‘huge task’ chairing the five-year investigation into Establishment sex abuse and cover-ups, and predicted that he would not live to see its final report.
The former Lord Chief Justice added that the £18million-a-year probe is ‘sucking huge amounts of resources’ out of the system and questioned the Government’s priorities at a time of austerity.
He told a solicitors’ conference last week: ‘She [Goddard] has more and more on her plate.
‘I don’t believe I will see the results of her work. There is a danger that the task is so great that it might break the system.’
Lord Woolf went on: ‘If we have got the money to conduct these inquiries then I can see that they perform a service.
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