UNITED KINGDOM
Premier
Thu 04 Aug 2016
By Alex Williams
The judge leading an inquiry into the extent the Church and other UK institutions failed to protect children from sexual abuse spent three months of her first year in the position abroad.
In addition to an annual leave entitlement of 30 days, Dame Lowell Goddard also spent 44 working days in Australia and New Zealand, her home country.
A spokeswoman for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse told Premier Dame Goddard spent a portion of her time away from the UK learning from the experiences of the Australian royal commission on child abuse.
She added: “The chair spent 44 working days in New Zealand and Australia on inquiry business in the first financial year of the inquiry.
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