Hillsborough Law Now Training Event: What is Hillsborough Law Now?

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This training event will be led by Deborah Coles, CEO of Inquest, and Pete Weatherby QC, who will help us understand Hillsborough Law Now.

We want to build an army of campaigners, who we will train and support to attend events and meetings on behalf of the campaign.

The History:

In 2017 the then Prime Minister, Rt Hon. Theresa May MP, asked the then Bishop of Liverpool, Right Reverend James Jones, to undertake a review into lessons to be learned from Hillsborough (‘The Patronising Disposition of Unaccountable Power’). Published in November 2017, the recommendations of that review have still not been acted open and no legislation has been forthcoming. This meeting is convened to discuss how and when Parliamentarians, Combined Authority Mayors, campaigners, activities and others can drive forward the crucial need to bring forth legislative change that realises and enacts the recommendations of the 2017 Review.

The Review detailed 25 recommendations which form the basis of a proposed Hillsborough Law which would:

· Appoint a Public Advocate to act for families of the deceased after major incidents

· Give bereaved families better access to money for legal representation at inquests - creating a level playing field

· Put in place a duty of candour on all police officers and public officials

· Adopt a Charter for families bereaved through public tragedy which would be binding on all public bodies

· Place a requirement that evidence and findings of major Inquests must be taken fully into account at any subsequent criminal trials

· Clarify in law that major Inquiries commissioned by the Government or other official bodies constitute “courses of public justice”

· Make it a requirement that any criminal trials following a major inquest take place in a court with relevant expertise and status, rather than a crown court

We will go over these recommendations and connect them to real-life experiences and how HLN would make a difference.

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