UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Richard Ford Home Correspondent
Last updated at 2:13PM, February 4 2015
A New Zealand High Court judge has been chosen to head the child sex abuse inquiry, the home secretary announced today.
Justice Lowell Goddard, 66, is to lead a new statutory inquiry which is expected to investigate child sex abuse going back to 1945.
The New Zealand judge will be questioned by MPs next week when the Commons home affairs select committee holds a pre-appointment hearing with her.
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