Judge who deserted child abuse probe ‘can stay in her taxpayer-funded £110,000-a-year London house and is entitled to a £90k payoff despite resigning with immediate effect’

UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail

By SAM GREENHILL and CHRISTIAN GYSIN and CHRIS GREENWOOD FOR THE DAILY MAIL and BEN TUFFT FOR MAILONLINE

Dame Lowell Goddard, who quit as head of the nationwide child abuse inquiry, could be allowed to stay in her £110,000-a-year luxury London apartment, despite resigning with immediate effect.

Lawyers from the Home Office are poring over the New Zealand judge’s contract, but it is thought she is entitled to a three month notice period, with taxpayers footing the bill for her residence and pay.

The former chair of the landmark inquiry could also receive up to £90,000 in severance pay – as well as being able to stay in her Knightsbridge apartment for three months.

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