ABSTRACT
L. J. Taylor was critical of the police if there was any evasiveness in answering questions and pursued with vigour clarifications around who was chairing the Safety Advisory Group, upon which the monitoring of the certificate depended. The Law Commission 1995 consultation was the first step towards a systematic and critical overview of the area and is welcomed. The critical comments made by Dr Burton about families’ legal representatives, regarding misleading both the families and the Court of Appeal and being in conflict with the truth-seeking inquest function are quite amazing. Although some of the critical themes on generic inquests were clearly reinforced, there were some striking differences between the two disasters regarding the inquest process and relationship with the coroners. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
