Public Inquiries

Jason Beer QC is a barrister at 5 Essex Court, Temple. He specializes in public and administrative law. He was counsel in the Lawrence and Hutton Inquiries; lead in the Billy Wright, Rosemary Nelson, Baha Mousa, and Azelle Rodney Inquiries; and is presently counsel to the Al Sweady Inquiry.James Dingemans QC, is a barrister with extensive experience of public inquiries in England and Wales and abroad. He was leading counsel to the Hutton Inquiry in 2003, and to the Potters Bar Inquest in June and July 2010. He was also counsel for soldiers involved in the Baha Mousa Inquiry in 2009-2010. His practice includes constitutional law, as well as commercial litigation raising public law issues.Richard Lissack QC, FLC New York, QC Eastern Caribbean, QC Northern Ireland has appeared at many major public inquiries - Shipman, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Ladbroke Grove, Southall, Burns Inquiry into Hunting, Neale etc. He has also been involved in cases of constitutional significance such as the challenge to the use of the Parliament Act and to the refusal to hold a public inquiry into the foot and mouth disease outbreak.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Establishing an inquiry ; 3. The Constitution of an inquiry ; 4. The Administration of an Inquiry ; 5. Evidence and Procedure ; 6. Public Access to an Inquiry ; 7. Immunitites, Defamation and Undertakings ; 8. Representation and Funding ; 9. Inquiry Reports and the Duty to be Fair ; 10. Ending the Inquiry ; 11. Challenging an Inquiry ; 12. The Commonwealth and Reform ; APPENDICES ; APPENDIX I THE INQUIRES ACT 2005 ; APPENDIX II THE INQUIRY RULES 2006 ; APPENDIX III THE INQUIRIES (SCOTLAND) RULES 2007

This book achieves its aim of providing a comprehensive and accessible account of the practice and procedure of a public inquiry.