5 key takeaways from row over Boris Johnson’s Covid inquiry WhatsApps What did the inquiry want and why wouldn’t the government give it to them? The Independent UK · May 24, 2023
Covid inquiry issues legal threat to Cabinet Office over refusal to hand over Boris Johnson WhatsApp messages Official UK Covid Inquiry threatens legal action over refusal to supply then-Prime Minister’s unedited WhatsApp messages and diaries Evening Standard · May 24, 2023
Child sex abuse inquiry chair slams government’s ‘disappointing’ response to recommendations Plans announced by Suella Braverman ‘will not provide the protection from sexual abuse that our children deserve’, Alexis Jay warns The Independent UK · May 22, 2023
Disgraced Queensland former police commissioner Terry Lewis, who died aged 95, remembered as 'an evil man' The first serving Australian police commissioner to be knighted was jailed in 1991 for official corruption after being named in the Fitzgerald Inquiry. ABC News · May 6, 2023
Liverpool fans' group responds after UEFA reveal new safety plans following Champions League final chaos UEFA has brought in new measures to improve safeguards for fans attending their finals in the wake of last season's Champions League fiasco Liverpool Echo · May 5, 2023
Compensation scheme for contaminated blood scandal victims ‘must be extended’ Some people have yet to be compensated after the deaths of their loved ones Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2023
What happened to the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women? The Australian Senate’s inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women was briefly on the political agenda late last year, with little media coverage. The Conversation · Mar 30, 2023
Prince Harry’s lawyer denies leaking documents from Leveson Inquiry in privacy battle with Daily Mail publisher David Sherborne insists evidence in Prince Harry’s privacy claim can be used if it came into the public domain by another route Evening Standard · Mar 28, 2023
Council’s Edinburgh Tram Inquiry costs rise by another £100,000 Eight years after it was launched, the probe looking into the botched tram project which ran hundreds of millions over budget is expected to publish findings in the next six months. Edinburgh Live · Mar 14, 2023
Edinburgh Academy to be focus of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry when it resumes this summer The inquiry has been focusing on residential care provisions at boarding schools for a number of years and has also looked at Fettes College. Daily Record · Mar 10, 2023
Child abuse inquiry to focus on Edinburgh Academy Public hearings will resume in August. The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023
Two more Post Office workers die awaiting final compensation, inquiry hears On Tuesday the inquiry’s chairman, Sir Wyn Williams, said Isabella Armstrong-Wall and Lynette Hutchings had died. The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2023
Didsbury mosque responds to stinging Manchester Arena bombing inquiry criticism Leaders of the mosque attended by Arena bomber were accused of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity Manchester Evening News · Mar 3, 2023
Covid inquiry: what stage is it at and what will it look at? Public inquiry seeks to ‘learn lessons’ following devastating pandemic The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023 MI5 boss 'profoundly sorry' after failure to stop Manchester Arena bomber Manchester Arena Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders released his findings on Thursday, which determined MI5 officers failed to take appropriate action on two key pieces of intelligence received in the months before the attack
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 'The failures exposed in this report are unacceptable' 'Those killed and injured in this murderous attack had every right to feel safe and protected, but as this Inquiry has demonstrated, they were failed at every level'
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 Leaders of Didsbury Mosque attended by Arena bomber guilty of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity, inquiry finds But the mosque was not an ‘active factor or cause’ in the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his accomplice brother Hashem, the inquiry concluded
Daily Mirror · Feb 28, 2023 'Race played a part in my dad's death - we urge Covid inquiry to examine this' Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ), The Runnymede Trust and 25 other civil society organisations have written to Baroness Hallett, chair of the Covid Inquiry, calling for structural racism to be explicitly examined in the Covid inquiry
Evening Standard · Feb 24, 2023 Grenfell: System Failure. Scenes from the Inquiry review: a show that fills you with rage This quietly devastating show feels real, and its unvarnished testimony is horrifically compelling
Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2023 OPINION - The writer of two plays about the Grenfell Tower Inquiry on why theatre can help us make sense of it all As our second verbatim play taken from the transcripts of the inquiry opens, we find that little has changed. It’s time it did
ABC News · Feb 7, 2023 Police 'copy and pasted' details in murder review but forgot to change dead man's name, inquiry told Police appeared to show a lack of care when reviewing suspected gay hate murders, the inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes is told, as a third round of hearings gets underway in Sydney.
Chronicle Live · Feb 4, 2023 Infected Blood Inquiry chair says final report due 'in autumn' but promises 'there will be criticism' Sir Brian Langstaff said he'd estimate publication of his final report will be in autumn
Chronicle Live · Feb 3, 2023 Blood scandal campaigners are 'right to be angry' says top barrister warning wrongdoing medics should face criminal courts Sam Stein KC hit out at the Government and doctors who treated patients without their consent in a moving closing address to the Infected Blood Inquiry.
Chronicle Live · Jan 19, 2023 'What were you apologising for?' - Government lawyer refuses to say what Infected Blood apology was actually for Eleanor Grey KC said the Department of Health and Social Care 'would not be setting out a position' on what went wrong in the contaminated blood scandal.
Chronicle Live · Jan 18, 2023 Blood scandal victim's three recommendations on how Government should ensure disaster never happens again Andrew Bragg made three clear recommendations he said would help ensure no-one suffers at the hands of NHS errors like the victims of the contaminated blood scandal have