Newsletter No. 10 - Chair's Opening Statement

On 21st July, the Chair of the Inquiry, Baroness Hallett, issued her opening statement to kick off the Covid Inquiry. In this statement, Lady Hallett outlined how her and her team plan to run the Covid Inquiry, ensuring a 'swift but thorough' investigation. The Chair also announced that the Inquiry will be modular, meaning reports will be issued throughout the course of the Inquiry. You can watch the opening statement in full here. 

Following this, your legal team hosted another in a series of live client webinars to discuss the key outcomes of the statement, share their expert legal opinion, provide insight on next steps and answer your questions live. You can watch the recording of the live webinar below.

 

Catch up on previous live webinars

 

Protocol for the Transfer and Handling of Documents

Following this live client webinar, the Chair has since released the Protocol for the Transfer and Handling of Documents. The protocol outlines exactly how all relevant documents will be handled throughout the course of the Inquiry, including all modules. You can read the protocol in full below. 

Read the protocol 

The Protocol covers two key areas:

  • The production of documents by Core Participants, Material Providers and the public, and;
  • The receipt and handling of those documents by the Inquiry

Your legal team will be sharing their thoughts on the protocol in the coming days.

 

Updated FAQs

This webinar gave our clients and members of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Group the opportunity to ask their questions live to Elkan and Pete. As anticipated, there were many questions coming through surrounding the modukar structure of the Inquiry, how evidence will be gathered and handled, the listening exercise and more. All questions od general relevance have now been added to our FAQ page for you to read. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time during the webinar to answer all of the questions, so all participants who asked question will receive a personalised response to their question from a member of our legal team. 

Read the updated FAQs

 

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If you have lost a loved one to Covid-19, you have a right to be part of the public inquiry process. There is strength in numbers, so that as a group we can apply pressure to government and the Inquiry. We represent our Covid Inquiry clients pro bono, this means at no cost or financial commitment to you.

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