Research Catalog

Title

Public inquiries : wrong roads on Bloody Sunday / Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC.

Author

Blom-Cooper, Louis, 1926-

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.

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Details

Description

xvi, 158 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled with public concerns over national disasters and social scandals. The history and function of public inquiries are discussed here, depicting the dominant habit of lawyers up to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, ill-directed in 1998 for twelve-and-a-half years. The author became the legal representative for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in December 2000, two years into the public inquiry. Modernisation of public inquiries took place in the Inquiries Act 2005, heralded as a good piece of legislation. The result is a system of public inquiries conducted uniformly by Commissioners of Inquiry. Judges and leading lawyers are often Commissioners of Inquiry, although public inquiries are, as they always were, sterile of legal effect. They are the long arm of the sponsoring Minister; as Lord Bingham stated, 'unlike any court of law.'"--

Alternative Title

Public inquiries : wrong route on Bloody Sunday

Subject

• Great Britain
• Governmental investigations > Great Britain
• Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972
• Massacres > Northern Ireland > Derry > History > 20th century
• Political violence > Northern Ireland > Derry > History > 20th century
• Demonstrations > Northern Ireland > Derry > History > 20th century
• Derry > Bloody Sunday
• Gewalt
• Parlamentarische Untersuchung

Note

• Erratum slip, correcting subtitle, inserted.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Concern for scandals and disasters -- Early beginnings : corruption and maladministration -- The Royal Commission on Tribunals of Inquiry 1966 (the Salmon Commission) -- The jurisprudence of public inquiries -- The wrong turn in 1998 : a final dose of inappropriate legalism -- The lapse of time : assessment of evidence -- The unexplained circumstances -- An analysis of the [Inquiries] Act of 2005 : an aspect of public administration -- The chairing of commissions : horses for courses -- Counsel to the inquiry, statutory and non-statutory -- Safeguards for witnesses -- Chilcot-Maxwellisation-Saville : the problem of delay -- Model inquiries : Hillsborough (1989) and Litvinenko (2015) -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Lessons learned, or another wrong turn?

Call Number

JFE 17-8405

ISBN

• 9781509906789
• 1509906789

LCCN

2016049544

OCLC

961388499

Author

Blom-Cooper, Louis, 1926- author.

Title

Public inquiries : wrong roads on Bloody Sunday / Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC.

Publisher

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8405