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03 June 2020
Issue: 7889 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Criminal
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NLJ this week: Undercover inquiry

The public inquiry into the ‘spy cops’ scandal has so far struggled amid various concerns including about the suitability of the Chair, according to Mike Schwarz, partner at Hodge, Jones & Allen writing in NLJ this week

The Undercover Policing Inquiry began in 2015 and was intended to last three years. The scandal involved allegations of miscarriage of justice as well as revelations of undercover officers forming long-term relationships and fathering children with those they were spying on. Only a minority of the undercover officers’ names have been made public.

Schwarz, who is representing 100 of the core participants in the Inquiry, writes that there is still time for the inquiry to learn lessons, become more open and transparent, and change track.

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