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Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry

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Question for Home Office

UIN 49001, tabled on 17 October 2016

Question

John Mann
Labour
Bassetlaw
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, when setting up the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the Government stipulated how many members of the counsel team supporting that inquiry were to practise family law.

Answer

Sarah Newton
Conservative
Truro and Falmouth
Commons

Answered on

20 October 2016

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was established under the Inquiries Act 2005. The appointment of counsel to the inquiry is a matter for the inquiry chair. The only requirement under the Inquiry Rules 2006 is that counsel appointed by the chair should be ‘qualified lawyers,’ which means they must be a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales.

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