Promoting More Effective Oversight of the Implementation of Recommendations Made by Public Inquiries in the UK

Event Details

The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law is undertaking a project to examine ways of promoting more effective oversight of the implementation of public inquiry recommendations in the UK.

More effective follow-up of inquiry recommendations is needed to avoid a repeat of the failures identified in past inquiry reports. There is currently momentum to address the problem of oversight of recommendations from a number of sources, both in Parliament and in civil society.

This workshop will consider the mechanisms currently used or proposed in the UK to oversee the implementation of public inquiry recommendations (e.g., oversight by government and public bodies, by Parliament, by inquiries themselves, by other mechanisms, including proposals for a National Oversight Mechanism, and by advocacy groups and those with lived experience of inquiries); the types of recommendations that public inquiries make; and wider themes relating to the framing and development of inquiry recommendations. The types of recommendations that public inquiries make and how they are framed is relevant to both the design of inquiries themselves and the design of oversight mechanisms.

Panel 1 - Institutional mechanisms of oversight
Panel 2 - Inquiries, their recommendations, courts and the public space

This project is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

Speakers

Panel 1 - Institutional mechanisms of oversight

Chair: Arabella Lang, Head of Public Law, The Law Society 

• Dr Emma Ireton, Associate Professor, Nottingham Law School
• Prof Philip Lord Norton of Louth, former Chairman of the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee and Professor of Government, University of Hull
• Deborah Coles, Executive Director INQUEST
• Neil Comrie AO APM, former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia and former implementation monitor in Australia

Panel 2 - Inquiries, their recommendations, courts and the public space

Chair: Dr Jan vanZyl Smit, Director, The Bingham Centre 

• Sir John Saunders, former Chairman of the Manchester Arena Inquiry
• Prof Naomi Fulop, University College London and Board Member, Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice
• Marie Lyon BEM, Chair, Association for Children Damaged by Homone Pregnancy Tests
• Sonali Naik KC, Garden Court Chambers.
  

This event is convened by Lucy Moxham, Dr Jan van Zyl Smit and Henry Screaton.

Pricing and Registration

This is a closed event, by invitation only. If you wish to attend, please contact Lucy Moxham (l.moxham@binghamcentre.biicl.org).