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Public Inquiries - Wrong Route on Bloody Sunday (Paperback)
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Public Inquiries - Wrong Route on Bloody Sunday (Paperback)
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Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled
with allaying public concern over national disasters and social
scandals. This book seeks to describe historically the use of
public inquiries, and demonstrates why their methods continued to
deploy until 1998 the ingrained habits of lawyers, particularly by
issuing warning letters in order to safeguard witnesses who might
be to blame. Under the influence of Lord Justice Salmon, the vital
concern about systems and services allotted to social problems was
relegated to the identification of individual blameworthiness. The
book explains why the last inquiry under that system, into the
events of 'Bloody Sunday' under Lord Saville's chairmanship, cost
GBP200 million and took twelve and a half years (instead of two
years). 'Never again', was the Government's muted cry as the method
of investigating the public concern was eventually replaced by the
Inquiries Act 2005, by common consent a good piece of legislation.
The overriding principle of fairness to witnesses was confirmed by
Parliament to those who are 'core participants' to the event, but
with limited rights to participate. The public inquiry, the author
asserts, is now publicly administered as a Commission of Inquiry,
and is correctly regarded as a branch of public administration that
focuses on the systemic question of what went wrong, as opposed to
which individuals were to blame.
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