Terms of Reference and Protocol: Statement by the Panel
The article in The Guardian newspaper on 7 July, ‘Lawyers to boycott torture inquiry as UK rights groups label it a sham’, reported a number of criticisms of The Detainee Inquiry made by some NGOs and...
View ArticleStatement by the Inquiry – 4 August
The Inquiry regrets the decision announced today by the solicitors to the detainees and the NGOs not to participate in the Inquiry. The Inquiry’s parameters were laid down by the Prime Minister and...
View ArticleStatement by the Inquiry – Libya
The Detainee Inquiry is looking at the extent of the UK Government’s involvement in, or awareness of, improper treatment of detainees including rendition. We are therefore, of course, considering these...
View ArticleStatement by The Right Honourable Peter Riddell
Peter Riddell was today appointed as the Director of the Institute for Government. He will therefore be leaving The Detainee Inquiry Panel at the end of the year. He said: ‘It has been a privilege to...
View ArticleBroadcasting of the Inquiry’s Open Hearings
The Panel is currently minded that, when the Detainee Inquiry is formally launched, it should permit the broadcasting of all its open hearings in line with the Inquiry’s protocol. The Panel would like...
View ArticleStatement by the Inquiry – 12 January
In a joint statement, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today announced the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge any named individuals in...
View ArticleStatement By The Chairman Of The Detainee Inquiry
The Secretary of State for Justice (the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP QC) today announced that, in view of the further immediate Metropolitan Police investigations announced last week into the allegations...
View ArticleStatement by the Inquiry – 28 June
The Detainee Inquiry yesterday delivered to the Prime Minister the report that the Justice Secretary requested in his statement to the House of Commons on 18 January 2012.
View ArticleStatement by the Inquiry – 17 July
The Secretary of State for Justice (the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP QC) today made a Written Ministerial Statement on the Inquiry’s Report (PDF).
View ArticleStatement by the Detainee Inquiry on publication of its report on 19 December...
Today the Government has published a report submitted to the Prime Minister by Sir Peter Gibson and Dame Janet Paraskeva, the Panel of the Detainee Inquiry, on the Inquiry’s work. The Inquiry’s Report...
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