WEBINAR: Public Inquiries in England - Do they result in change?

Matthias Kelly QC will join Lord Hendy this evening in this webinar hosted by the Society of English & American Lawyers (SEAL).

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They will discuss Public Inquiries as well as internal inquiries and their role in the English legal system, as well as reflecting on their experiences and their take-away.  Lord Hendy QC of Old Square Chambers  and Matthias Kelly QC/SC of 39 Essex Chambers, London and Merchants Quay Chambers, Dublin, have each appeared in many high-profile inquests and inquiries, including the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the Mid Staffordshire Hospital Trust Inquiry.

Lord Hendy QC has appeared in many high-profile inquests and inquiries, including:

•  the Grenfell Tower Inquiry (instructed by the Fire Brigade Union) (ongoing)
• the Lakanal House fire inquest (for the bereaved and injured) 2013
• The Leveson Inquiry (for the NUJ), 2011-2012 (see his cross examination of Rupert Murdoch by clicking on his website)
• The Potters Bar train crash inquest (for the bereaved), 2010
• the Ladbroke Grove Train Crash inquiry (for the victims), 2000
• the Southall Train Crash inquiry (for the victims), 1999
• the Street Markets inquiry for LB Tower Hamlets (chaired), 1991
• the Woolf inquiry into the Strangeways Prison Riot (for the POA), 1990
• the Kings Cross Fire disaster (for the Association of London Local Authorities) 1986.

• Disclosures Tribunal, 14 th October 2019, continuing in Dublin Castle, before Mr Justice Sean Ryan, former President of the Court of Appeal, acting for Garda Nicholas Keogh, a serving member of An Garda Siochana who made a protected disclosure.
• Counsel to Ampleforth Abbey and School, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, 2016-2019.
• Mid Staffordshire Hospital Trust Inquiry.
•  Independent review of the financial affairs and administration of ASLEF (Train drivers Union) between 1994 and 2004 conducted for the Union's Executive Committee; 2004.
• Independent review of discovery by the Department of Education and Science to the Commission to inquire into child abuse in Irish Institutions. 2004.
• Chairman of the Hepatitis C Working Party established by the Haemophilia Society in September 2001, to devise costed proposals for a financial assistance fund to recognise the loss and suffering of peoplewith haemophilia resulting from their infection with hepatitis C (HCV). Reported March 2002.

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