SCOTLAND
Holyrood
Written by Tom Freeman on 6 July 2017
A judge has ruled a compensation claim by the former chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry should be dismissed
Susan O’Brien QC quit the troubled inquiry last year after it emerged she faced ministerial intervention to remove her.
She then raised an action for damages at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
O’Brien claimed ministerial intervention amounted to a breach of contract. In her resignation letter, O’Brien said government interference had left her with “no alternative” but to step down.
However, Lord Pentland called the £500,000 claim “misconceived” as he threw the case out of court yesterday.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: “The judge has confirmed that the decision by ministers to undertake an investigation was, in the circumstances, appropriate, proportionate and fair.
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