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On Thursday the senior lawyer of the Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Ben Emmerson QC, resigned, in a further development into the troubled independent inquiry.
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Theresa May first set up the inquiry in July 2014 when she was home secretary, with the aim to investigate whether “state and non-state institutions” have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse within England and Wales.
Baroness Butler-Sloss
The inquiry was troubled from the start: just two days after it was established, its chairwoman Baroness Butler-Sloss faced calls to quit due to a potential conflict of interest. She resigned a couple of days after.
The next chairwoman, Dame Fiona Woolf, a leading tax lawyer and then Lord Mayor of the City of London, was in the role for under two months. She quit after questions over her suitability.
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