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Inquiries & Investigations

What our barristers offer

39 Essex Chambers has long experience of appearing in public and private inquiries, both as counsel to the Inquiry and acting for participants in inquiries.

Our experience

Inquiries

Our barristers have been instructed in the most high-profile domestic inquiries, including:

the Jay inquiry
the Infected Blood inquiry
the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry
the Grenfell Tower inquiry
the Chilcot inquiry
the Rosemary Nelson inquiry
the Al-Sweady inquiry
the Leveson inquiry
the Hillsborough inquiry
the Hutton inquiry
the Bloody Sunday inquiry
the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry
the Ayling and Kerr-Haslam private inquiries
the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust inquiry
the Soham Inquiry
The Commission of Enquiry into the failure of CL Financial Limited, Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, CLICO Investment Bank Limited, British American Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, Caribbean Money Market Brokers L limited and the Hindu Credit Union Co-Operative Society Limited

We have represented clients in many inquiries in the Caribbean and elsewhere.

Our barristers have represented clients in litigation arising out of inquiries, including:

Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Scholes v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Inquests

We have extensive experience of inquests, both representing parties in high-profile inquests such as that into the death of Harold Shipman, the Deepcut Inquest and the Hillsborough Inquest as well acting in litigation about the scope of inquests, such as R (Lewis) v HM Coroner and Secretary of State for Justice.

Planning and environmental inquiries

Our barristers regularly appear at planning and environmental inquiries, hearings and examinations. These include all types of planning appeal, including retail, housing, waste, energy, Planning Act development consents and enforcement, environmental permitting appeals and water resources management plan inquiries.

We have promoted development plan documents through the examination process. Examples include acting in the Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station Development Consent Order Application inquiry and the Camden Town Station Redevelopment public inquiry.

Legislation

We act in hybrid and private bill proceedings, including numerous instructions on the Crossrail bill.

Click here to download our Safeguarding Investigations Group Capability Statement

Who to contact

Sheraton Doyle is the Senior Practice Manager for the Inquiries & Investigations team and will, along with the clerking team below, be able to help you with any questions.

Sheraton Doyle