UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
The judge leading the independent inquiry into historic child sex abuse will earn a salary of £360,000 a year.
Justice Lowell Goddard will also receive an annual rental allowance of £110,000 and £12,000 a year to cover utilities.
In addition the Home Office will cover the cost of four return flights from the UK to the judge’s native New Zealand per year for her and her husband and a further two return flights from New Zealand to the UK for other immediate family members.
Details of the pay packet have been disclosed today after Justice Goddard formally opened the long-awaited probe last week.
The terms, published on the inquiry’s website, state that her appointment will be for the duration of the inquiry.
It has been fixed for an initial period from April this year until December 2018 and can be extended by mutual agreement.
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