Tag: Public inquiry
4 months ago
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Post Office scandal: Enough evidence for police investigation, say postmasters' lawyers

Lawyers representing postmasters caught up in the Horizon scandal say they believe the public inquiry has unearthed e...

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6 months ago
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Jermaine Baker: Met firearms cop to face misconduct hearing for 2015 fatal shooting

The officer - described only as W80 - shot Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, north London, as police stopped a plot to ...

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10 months ago
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Joy Gardner's uncle says 'nothing has changed' 30 years on from death after police raid

Joy Gardner died after suffering respiratory failure during a police raid, but her family says nothing has changed an...

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12 months ago
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Boris Johnson's new lawyers set to cost taxpayers more than £1 million

Labour said it was “outrageous” that hard-working taxpayers will continue to pay Mr Johnson’s legal bills, as he “rak...

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about 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau asks committee to launch new study of foreign interference in Canada’s elections

Amid rising political pressure, the Liberal government is asking a parliamentary committee with the power to review c...

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over 1 year ago
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Feuding politicians. Candid texts. A stunning inquiry. The behind-the-scenes story of how the ‘Fr...

Testimony and evidence at the inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell the “Freedom ...

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over 1 year ago
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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to testify at inquiry on why government invoked Emergencie...

Mendicino is expected to clarify exactly what RCMP Comm. Brenda Lucki advised him prior to a key cabinet meeting on F...

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over 1 year ago
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Border blockades tipped ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests into national security threat, Bill Blair tells...

Blair said the blockades were harming Canada’s economy, and he thought police had exhausted existing powers or couldn...

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over 1 year ago
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CSIS head told Justin Trudeau to use Emergencies Act, inquiry told

The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service advised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the federal governm...

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over 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau’s top security adviser contradicts top Mountie Brenda Lucki at ‘Freedom Convoy’ in...

Trudeau’s national security adviser says RCMP commissioner did not advise federal cabinet that police had by Feb. 13,...

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over 1 year ago
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Analysis | Behind-the-scenes moments are being revealed at the Emergencies Act inquiry. Will they...

After 21 days of testimony, a public inquiry is still dancing around the question of whether the government was justi...

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over 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau said using military at ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests would be the ‘last resort,’ inqui...

The revelation comes from notes taken during a call on which several premiers expressed concern that using the Emerge...

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over 1 year ago
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Government set to spend £35.5 million on lawyers to defend departments in Covid inquiry

Ministerial departments - including the Cabinet Office and Departments of Health and Social Care and Education - have...

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over 1 year ago
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Tears, outbursts and monologues: Judge struggles to keep Emergencies Act inquiry on track as ‘Fre...

A judge who gave the floor to key “Freedom Convoy” organizers to vent about personality conflicts, power struggles an...

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over 1 year ago
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Ottawa police thought the ‘Freedom Convoy’ would end quickly — but intelligence reports reveal ot...

The federal government produced daily intelligence briefings by RCMP and senior public servants on the so-called “Fre...

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over 1 year ago
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Emergencies Act inquiry to hear from Pat King, other ‘Freedom Convoy’ figures on Wednesday

The inquiry is probing the conditions that prompted the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with...

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over 1 year ago
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‘Freedom Convoy’ protest organizers to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

The inquiry is slated to hear from three protest leaders on Tuesday: truckers Chris Barber and Brigitte Belton, and S...

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over 1 year ago
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Emergencies Act Inquiry to hear CSIS evidence on ‘Freedom Convoy’ in secret

Justice Paul Rouleau agreed to the federal government’s request for a closed hearing on information the spy agency cl...

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over 1 year ago
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Ottawa police testimony to continue Wednesday at Emergencies Act inquiry

The local police response, in particular under then-chief Peter Sloly, has come under close scrutiny over the first n...

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over 1 year ago
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More high-ranking police officers slated to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

On Tuesday, the inquiry will hear from Russell Lucas of the Ottawa police, as well as the OPP’s Marcel Beaudin.

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over 1 year ago
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Ottawa police second-in-command Steve Bell testifies at Emergency Act inquiry

Bell, who became the interim chief after Peter Sloly resigned, is the second senior manager from the Ottawa police to...

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over 1 year ago
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Top Ottawa officials warned days before ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest that demonstrators planned to ch...

The inquiry is tasked with probing why the government triggered the act and examine the extraordinary police powers t...

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over 1 year ago
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Public inquiry to focus ‘squarely’ on government’s use of the Emergencies Act, commissioner says

“The exercise by government of the exceptional power given to it by the Emergencies Act affects, directly or indirect...

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over 1 year ago
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Emotional minute's silence held at Covid inquiry as grieving families demand answers

Baroness Heather Hallett opened the Covid inquiry promising bereaved families would be at the heart of business promi...

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over 1 year ago
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Archie Batersbee's mum calls for law change to stop dangerous online 'challenge' videos

Archie Battersbee's mum Hollie Dance is campaigning for a change in the law to stop harmful 'challenges' on social me...

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over 2 years ago
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Grenfell protesters march to burned-out ruins to demand justice for 72 killed

The silent march of more than 100 Grenfell protesters saw a sea of placards reading: “This much evidence still no cha...

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over 2 years ago
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Man, 24, arrested at airport by detectives investigating Manchester Arena attack in 2017

Greater Manchester Police said the man, who is from the Fallowfield area of Manchester, was arrested at Manchester Ai...

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over 2 years ago
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'Uncaring' Boris Johnson slammed by bereaved Covid families as he paints on Marbella jaunt

Boris Johnson 'slaps the suncream on while claiming he is too busy' blast furious families as the weasel is pictured ...

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over 2 years ago
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Boris Johnson refuses to promise permanent Covid memorial in 'kick in teeth' for families

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group shared tragic stories of loss with Boris Johnson at a long-awaited D...

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over 2 years ago
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Mum killed in Manchester Arena suicide bombing 'died as she lived - helping others'

Wendy Fawell, 50, from Otley, West Yorkshire, was approximately five metres away from suicide bomber Salman Abedi whe...

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almost 3 years ago
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Manchester Arena bomber 'should have been seen as threat' on night, review finds

A further report will follow on the emergency response and the experience of each of those who died, and finally an a...

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almost 3 years ago
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Covid face masks sporting serial killer Harold Shipman's face 'support NHS'

The vile masks bearing the mouth and beard of serial killer GP Harold Shipman are on sale for £10 with the sellers jo...

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almost 3 years ago
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Delaying Covid inquiry would let people 'rewrite memories and lose documents'

Dominic Cummings, the PM's former top aide said there was 'no excuse' for delaying the inquiry until next year - sayi...

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about 3 years ago
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Boris Johnson will give evidence under oath to Covid-19 public inquiry

The Prime Minister has committed to testifying before the inquiry if he's asked to do so.

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about 3 years ago
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Defiant Michael Gove claims he 'never heard' PM make 'bodies piled high' remark

Michael Gove leapt to Boris Johnson's defence after Labour's Rachel Reeves accused the PM of "corrupting the standard...

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about 3 years ago
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Boris Johnson won't set Covid probe date despite devastating question from MP

Labour MP Afzal Khan told the Commons he had lost "an entire generation" of his family to the virus

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about 3 years ago
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Football Index: 'I lost more than £23,000 after gambling giant collapsed'

EXCLUSIVE: Lifelong Burnley Fan, Neil Kirk, saw his savings crash from more than £23,000 to just £1,500 when gambling...

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about 3 years ago
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Hancock 'acted unlawfully' in failing to publish Covid-19 contracts

The High Court ruled the Health Secretary had "breached his legal obligation" to publish details of contracts within ...

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