‘tantrums and Shocking Racism’ of Inquiry’s Dysfunctional Dame

By Andrew Norfolk
The Times
October 14, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tantrums-and-shocking-racism-of-inquiry-s-dysfunctional-dame-svddjctw7

Dame Lowell was heavily reliant on Ben Emmerson, 53, a leading human rights QC who is not renowned for his emollience or team-working skills

On a summer afternoon this year Dame Lowell Goddard stood at the doorway of her Westminster office and shouted in anger. Unless she got her own way, she is said to have declared, “I’m going to pack my bags, go back to New Zealand and take this inquiry down with me.”

A visitor to the headquarters of the national child sex abuse inquiry might have been shocked, not least because the threat was made by the judge paid ?500,000 a year to lead an investigation forecast to run for a decade at a cost of ?100 million.

Dame Lowell’s staff,…