UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
The former Old Bailey prosecutor Brian Altman QC has been named as the new lead counsel for the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.
Altman, who has specialised in serious crime and terrorism cases, replaces Ben Emmerson QC, who resigned last September amid disputes over the scale of the investigation.
Welcoming Altman’s appointment, the IICSA’s chair, Prof Alexis Jay OBE, said: “He is hugely experienced, having spent 16 years as Treasury counsel, the last two and a half years of which were as first senior Treasury counsel. This is an important appointment for the inquiry and I look forward to working with Brian.”
Altman said: “The government and the public have set the inquiry a huge challenge to investigate institutional responses to child sexual abuse in the past, and to report and make recommendations in order to prevent such abuse happening in the future.
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