UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
The head of the troubled child abuse inquiry will attempt to get the process back on track later when she outlines its schedule for the coming year.
Professor Alexis Jay, who is the inquiry’s fourth chairwoman in only two years, will try to draw a line under a year that has seen a victims’ group withdraw and several lawyers leave.
A leading barrister told Sky News the inquiry has been “so badly managed from the beginning”.
Michael Mansfield QC said: “It is a rather dismal exercise and I am not surprised that groups of survivors have had enough because they’ve been waiting in some cases 20-25 years to see justice in their cases.”
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