Launch of the Final Report of the Independent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers
Date: 15 May 2024
Time: 17.00 - 18.30 (Registration from 16.30)
Followed by a reception
Venue: Institute for Government, 2 Carlton Gardens, St. James's, London, SW1Y 5AA
Event Details
This event will mark the launch of the Final Report of the Independent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers.
The Commission is chaired by the Rt. Hon. Sir Jack Beatson FBA and supported by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. It has reviewed the UK's public health legislative framework and institutional arrangements, alongside Government decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic, to consider how far legal frameworks and parliamentary procedures in the UK protect the Rule of Law and human rights, and promote accountability, transparency and parliamentary control of executive action. It has explored these issues in the context of the need to secure timely and effective public health outcomes.
Chair
Sir Jack Beatson FBA, Chair of the Commission
Speakers
- Dr Ruth Fox, Commissioner and Hansard Society,
- Dr Joelle Grogan, Commissioner and UK in a Changing Europe
- Dr Ruth Hussey CBE OBE DL, Commissioner and and formerly Chief Medical Officer for Wales
- Adam Wagner, Commissioner and Doughty Street Chambers
This event is convened by Lucy Moxham and Katie Lines of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, BIICL
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