"Setting Up the Covid Inquiry"

[mc2fool]

A potentially interesting upcoming public Zoom webinar.

Lord Phillips, Sir Brian Leveson, Margaret Aldred: Setting Up the Covid Inquiry
Thursday 13 January 2022, 5:00 pm–6:15 pm

The Covid Inquiry is due to start work in the spring, chaired by Baroness (Heather) Hallett, a former Court of Appeal judge. It will be one of the most complex inquiries in legal history, and highly charged politically, with 150k deaths so far, and the pandemic far from over.

This seminar brings together three speakers involved with previous high profile inquiries: Lord Phillips, chair of the BSE Inquiry (1998-2000); Sir Brian Leveson, chair of the Inquiry into Press Regulation (2011-12); and Margaret Aldred, secretary of the Iraq Inquiry (2009-16) chaired by the late Sir John Chilcot. They will pool advice on how best to set up a complex inquiry to ensure that it works speedily and efficiently, victims feel they have been heard, and the findings are accepted as legitimate.

It's free to watch but you have to register. You'll be able to submit questions via the Zoom Q&A box.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/events/2022/jan/lord-phillips-sir-brian-leveson-margaret-aldred-setting-covid-inquiry

[pje16]

Thanks
I've just registered
should be interesting hearing if for nothing else than how incompetent UK GOV was

[dealtn]

Thanks
I've just registered
should be interesting hearing if for nothing else than how incompetent UK GOV was

Well I think you will be disappointed in that case. This is a seminar on how to set up such an Inquiry, it won't be about the Government, or anyone else's competence. That will be for the Inquiry itself.