UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By REBECCA CAMBER AND IZZY FERRIS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
The beleaguered child sex abuse inquiry was said to be in meltdown yesterday as it emerged that five lawyers have now quit.
Two barristers examining allegations against Lord Janner have recently resigned as the inquiry is having to consider axing its investigation into him.
Junior counsel Abigail Bright and Alexandra Felix are said to have left after the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse postponed hearing claims against the late Labour peer for seven months.
Meanwhile the inquiry’s top lawyer Ben Emmerson QC, who was appointed by Theresa May to be lead counsel, was suspended last week 24 hours before he quit.
His deputy Elizabeth Prochaska, with whom he was said to have worked closely, had quietly resigned for unknown reasons two weeks previously.
And Hugh Davies QC left in December after telling officials he no longer wanted to be part of the management team. It means two of Mr Emmerson’s deputies have quit in the space of a year.
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