Inquests

About

Provided by Bhatt Murphy

Bhatt Murphy lawyers have been involved in a number of significant inquiries constituted both prior to and since the Inquiries Act 2005 including:

• The Butler Inquiry concerning the handling of deaths in custody within the Crown Prosecution Service (1997)
• The Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie (2000)
• The Hillsborough Independent Panel (2010)
• The Leveson Inquiry (2012)
• The Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing (2016)
• The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel (2013 - to date)
• The Public Inquiry into the police shooting of Anthony Grainger (2016)
• The Grenfell Tower Inquiry
• The UK Covid-19 Inquiry

All of the lawyers at Bhatt Murphy work with the families of those who have died in custody or in other controversial circumstances.

We have particular experience working on deaths in custody by reason of restraint, police shootings and those which occur through self-harm. We work closely with non-governmental organisations outside the court room to highlight patterns of preventable deaths and to contribute to public debate and to try and achieve progressive change.

It is our experience that the primary objective of any bereaved family is to find out as much information as possible about the circumstances of the death; to make sense out of their grief at the loss of their loved one; and to ensure that lessons are learnt from their own tragedy so that others may not have to suffer as they have done.