UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Danny Shaw
Home affairs correspondent, BBC News
Concerns about the senior barrister on the independent child abuse inquiry had been raised a year before he resigned.
A report says two members of staff “took exception” to Ben Emmerson QC’s interactions with them in 2015, though neither accused him of improper conduct or made a formal complaint.
He quit in September 2016 after another worker claimed he had groped her in a lift.
In December, he was cleared of sexual assault and harassment.
The independent report calls the inquiry’s response “appropriate and proportionate”.
Mark Sutton QC, who led the review, said the inquiry had been confronted with a “set of circumstances with complicating features” that had not been mentioned in the media coverage of the events.
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