This update provides a digest of:
Arrangements for holding limited attendance hearings
The Inquiry will resume hearing oral evidence on Monday 6 July 2020 at 10:00 at 13 Bishop’s Bridge Road on a limited attendance basis.
Ahead of the third anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017, the Inquiry Panel has made the following statement:
"On the third anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower the members of the Inquiry Panel wish to extend their heartfelt sympathy and that of the entire Inquiry team to all those whose lives were changed irrevocably by the disaster and particularly to those who lost loved ones as a result of this tragic event.
This update provides a digest of:
Plans for limited attendance hearings
On 22 April, the Chairman wrote to the Attorney General to request an extension of the undertaking granted in February 2020. The Attorney General has decided to extend the undertaking in respect of oral evidence given to the Inquiry in Modules 1 to 3 to legal persons.
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Decision to resume with limited attendance hearings
In April, the Inquiry wrote to core participants inviting their views on how best to resume hearings. The following three options were put forward for consideration:
- Option 1: Suspend hearings until social restrictions have been lifted completely
The Chairman has written to the Attorney General to request an extension of the undertaking granted in February 2020. The Chairman’s letter, and the letter from the Attorney General’s Office to Core Participants, can be found under correspondence on the Inquiry’s documents page.
This update provides a digest of:
Inquiry operations during social restrictions
This update provides a digest of:
Inquiry operations during social restrictions
"In the light of the Prime Minister’s statement this afternoon the Panel has decided that the Inquiry should hold no further hearings for the time being. To do so, even on the basis of limited attendance, would be to expose those whose presence is essential for that purpose, not to mention those whom we wish to call as witnesses, to an unacceptable risk of infection. It would also send the wrong signal to the world at large at a time when everyone is being urged to cooperate with measures designed to minimise the effect of the virus.
The Inquiry wrote to Core Participants yesterday inviting their views on how hearings should proceed in response to the rapidly evolving situation of COVID-19.
