Writing in NLJ this week, columnist Jon Robins, talks about the long struggle for justice as depicted in film director Daniel Gordon’s two-hour documentary Hillsborough, shown on BBC2 this month. The families were given legal aid for the 2016 inquests but it was not like that the first round, when the families managed to raise £150,000 for one barrister and then discovered at the inquests that the police had ten barristers, all paid for by the state. Andy Burnham, shadow home secretary, is urging cross-party support for amendments to the Policing and Crime Bill to make misconduct in public office a criminal offence.
20 May 2016
Hillsborough
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