Home Secretary will not appeal 7/7 Inquests secret evidence ruling

13 December 2010 by Adam Wagner

The Home Secretary has said that the government will not appeal the High Court’s decision to uphold that there were to be no ‘closed’ hearings at the 7/7 inquests.

As we posted earlier this month, The High Court, composed of two colleagues of the Coroner (Dame Heather Hallett) in the Court of Appeal, robustly rejected the Home Secretary’s application for a review of the decision. In short, both judges concurred with Hallett LJ’s decision that the Coroners Rules did not provide a power to hear evidence in sessions from which ‘interested persons’ (including families of the 7/7 victims) could be excluded.

Richard Mumford’s analysis of the High Court decision is here, and his previous post on Lady Justice Hallett’s decision is here. 

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