Public Inquiry

Hudgell Solicitors has renewed its call for a Statutory Inquiry into the standard of Britain’s maternity services as a new report today highlighted the ‘shockingly poor quality’ across the UK. An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry into the birth trauma experiences of hundreds of women found good care for pregnant women to be ‘the exception […]

Three groups representing hundreds of people who suffered ill health – and families who lost loved ones after having Covid-19 vaccinations – have been granted status to give evidence at the Covid-19 Public Inquiry examining the UK’s response to and impact of the pandemic. UKCVFamily, Vaccine Injured Bereaved UK (VIBUK) and the Scottish Vaccine Injury […]

Lawyers representing victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing say their focus is now on ensuring they are helped to ‘live their best possible lives’ and are ‘fully compensated for the ‘unimaginable suffering’ they’ve endured’. Hudgell Solicitors represent more than 150 survivors of the attack and families who lost loved ones, they say that after […]

Today’s launch of the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry by chair Heather Hallett marks the start of what is likely to become one of the most wide-ranging statutory investigations our country has ever seen. And so it should be. As Lady Hallett outlined today, Covid-19 was utterly devastating. Since March 9th 2020, more than 180,000 deaths […]

The first inquiry of its kind in England is investigating the deaths of 1,500 mental health patients who were being cared for by NHS services across Essex between 2000 and 2020. The circumstances of their deaths were “unexpected, unexplained or self-inflicted”. They included adults, young people and children. They were all highly vulnerable and died […]

The Manchester Arena Inquiry has today released the first volume of its report into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing which killed 22 people in which Chairman Sir John Saunders concludes there were a series of “serious shortcomings” in security measures. The retired High Court judge said: “The security arrangements for the Manchester Arena should have […]

Following the publication of the first volume of findings into the Manchester Arena Inquiry today by Chairman Sir John Saunders, Neil Hudgell, of Hudgell Solicitors, said: “This inquiry has strongly demonstrated that there was an inexcusable catalogue of failings at every level which made the venue an attractive target to a terrorist attack, failed to […]

The collapse of a trial of retired South Yorkshire police officers and a former force lawyer who were accused of perverting justice by altering police statements in the aftermath of the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster has brought the need for new laws to be introduced sharply into focus. After five weeks of evidence in which […]

Despite the debate over its scheduled start next year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement of an independent public inquiry into the Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is one to be welcomed. There has been some criticism of the proposed start date of next spring and the potential political motives given the inquiry could go […]

Solicitor Terry Wilcox, of Hudgell Solicitors, is representing the families of two people killed in the Manchester Arena bombing at the ongoing Public Inquiry. The Manchester Arena Inquiry will leave ‘no stone unturned’ in seeking to ‘establish the truth’ about the bombing which claimed 22 lives in May 2017. Speaking at the first morning of […]