Campaigners say they will seek judicial review amid fears delay could lead to loss of evidence
Boris Johnson is facing possible legal action over a delay to the start of the Covid-19 public inquiry, which campaigners fear could lead to evidence being destroyed.
“In the vast majority of inquiries a setting up date is given within days or weeks of the chair being appointed, so this delay of over six months is both unprecedented and totally inexplicable,” said Elkan Abrahamson, head of major inquiries at law firm Broudie Jackson Canter which is advising the campaign.
It is an offence under the act to destroy or tamper with evidence, but only after the inquiry’s setting up date. Bereaved families are “deeply concerned [the delay] could have sinister ramifications, with evidence being deliberately destroyed.”
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