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The New Zealand High Court judge appointed to head Britain’s long-delayed inquiry into child sex abuse is to be grilled by MPs at Westminster.
Justice Lowell Goddard was named as inquiry chairwoman by Home Secretary Theresa May last week.
She is the third individual proposed to take charge of the inquiry, after Baroness Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf both stood aside amid concerns over their establishment links.
Justice Goddard, who oversaw an inquiry into failures in the policing of child abuse in New Zealand, is due to be questioned by the UK parliament’s home affairs select committee in a hearing from 2pm on Wednesday (1am Thursday NZ time).
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