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NLJ this week: Enact the Hillsborough Law without delay

25 October 2024
Issue: 8091 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Inquests , Criminal , Human rights , Media
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The Hillsborough Law ‘is decades overdue’, Colin Wells, barrister at 25 Bedford Row, & Jo Delahunty KC, barrister at 4PB, write in this week’s NLJ

Family and friends of those who died in the 1989 tragedy at the Sheffield stadium endured years of pain in their search for justice, amid a horrendous atmosphere of false narratives and blame-shifting—an ordeal no grieving family should go through.

Delahunty, who acted for 77 of the families in the Hillsborough inquests as part of the families’ legal team, and Wells highlight that the law ‘will need to be accompanied by a recognition that there is a deeply embedded political problem of secrecy and lack of transparency and candour in this country’.

Issue: 8091 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Inquests , Criminal , Human rights , Media
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