ymb....the Inquiry is now set up and is proceeding. The best way out of this fiasco is put one of the existing Inquiry Team in charge on a temp. basis, pending the appointment of a new Chair.
Here is the website :::
https://www.iicsa.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are
Any one of the above Members could easily take on the Chairship, until replacement is found.
I am not so easy to forgive and understand Goddard however....she is a very experienced Judge and she would have realised what she was taking on and to effectively "flounce" because of some criticism is not worthy of her.
It may have been a mistake, of course, to appoint someone from so far away. I would have thought that there are plenty of possible candidates that live within commuting distance that could do this job without too many difficulties.
To abandon this Inquiry now, after so long would be a mistake. It was said on the BBC this morning, that about 7% of adults in Britain have suffered some kind historical sexual abuse and those people need to see that justice is being done. We need to learn the mistake of the past in order to prevent them happening again now.
Child sexual abuse is still going on now....it hasn't gone away, nor will it, unless we take the whole issue seriously.