Friday, January 02, 2015

Still looking...

People don't become senior judges without having an incisive, analytical mind, so it's always worth listening to what they have to say.  Lady Butler-Sloss has made a very good point about the inquiry into historic child abuse of which, for a very short time, she was chairman.  She quit because she was seen as too "establishment" and too close to people who might have been involved.  But are we now in danger of swinging too far the other way?  The perceived problem is that if the inquiry is seen as being run by the establishment, the eventual report will be seen by many as saying what the establishment wants it to say. But isn't there an equal danger that if the inquiry is effectively "run" by the victims, in the same way the report will be seen as saying what the victims want it to say?  Either way, one side or the other is going to have no faith in the outcome.  Where you find an "honest broker" I don't know, but it has been suggested that you look outside these islands.

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