New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard: ‘I come with no agendas’

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

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A New Zealand High Court judge who has been named as the head of an inquiry into historical child sex abuse in England and Wales says she comes to the role “with no agendas”.

Justice Lowell Goddard was appointed after two previous chairwomen resigned over concerns with their links to the establishment.

“I can come, I suppose, as a fresh face and someone with no involvement,” she said.

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