Goddard Faces Censure over Her Silence

By Andrew Norfolk
The Times
October 15, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/goddard-faces-censure-over-her-silence-hl7kk8p6x

Dame Lowell Goddard will be publicly censured by the home affairs select committee if she fails to answer MPs’ questions

Dame Lowell Goddard faces official censure by parliament for refusing to answer questions about her tenure as chairwoman of the investigation.

The home affairs select committee is to warn her that she has one last chance to co-operate with its inquiry into the workings of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. If she fails to answer MPs’ questions — either in person or by video link from home in New Zealand — she will be officially and publicly censured by the committee.

“She is still a sitting high court judge in New Zealand and to be censured for wilfully…