UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Jake Morris
BBC Newsnight
The Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse has been hit by the resignation of another senior lawyer.
BBC Newsnight understands that Aileen McColgan has quit because of serious concerns over the inquiry’s leadership.
She was the barrister leading the inquiry’s investigations into the Anglican and Catholic Churches.
The inquiry said that lawyers come and go according to their professional obligations – and a spokeswoman declined to “comment on specifics”.
It is understood Aileen McColgan had concerns over the competency of the inquiry’s leadership and the way it had previously responded to the resignation of lawyers instructed by it. As well as working on the inquiry, she is also a Professor of Law at King’s College London.
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