UNITED KINGDOM
Legal Cheek
By Katie King
There is puzzlement this morning in legal London after BBC Newsnight claimed that Ben Emmerson QC, a highly-respected barrister and former leading lawyer at an independent child abuse inquiry, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the lift of a London office.
Emmerson “categorically denies” the allegations. The inquiry denies it received any complaint of sexual assault.
The top lawyer, one of 35 QCs at human rights and public law set Matrix, was suspended from his post at the national abuse inquiry in September. This happened, it was reported at the time, because the inquiry had “become very concerned about aspects of [his] leadership of the counsel team”. Inquiry chairwoman Professor Alexis Jay continued:
He has therefore been suspended from duty so that these can be properly investigated.
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