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Lampard Inquiry Disclosure Update – March 2025
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About Inquiries
About the Lampard Inquiry
Scope of the Lampard Inquiry
Terms of Reference
Final Terms of Reference
Explanatory Note on Scope
List of Issues
Statement of Approach
Inquiry Team
Terminology and Glossary
Financial Report
FAQs
General FAQs
Terms of Reference FAQs
Hearings FAQS
Evidence FAQS
Core Participant and Witness FAQs
Policies and Protocols
Protocol on Core Participants
Hearings Protocols
Protocol for April 2025 Hearing
Protocol on the Questioning of Witnesses in Oral Hearings
Witnesses Protocols
Compelling Witnesses
Protocol on Witness Statements
Protocol on Vulnerable Witnesses
Protocol on Whistleblowing
Anonymity and Restriction Orders
Patient Identity Restriction Orders
Patient Anonymity
Restriction Orders
Protocol on Restriction Orders
Costs protocols
Protocol on Legal Costs
Protocol on Witness Expenses
Protocol on Applications for
Core Participant Legal Funding
Notice of Determination
Information Handling
Statement of approach: Redaction, Data Protection and Privacy
Protocol on Documents
Privacy Information Notice
Prohibition on the destruction
of documents
Lampard Inquiry Disclosure Update – March 2025
Appropriate Policy Document
Protocol on the Role and Appointment of Assessors
Protocol on Equality, Diversity
and Inclusion
Hearings
Overview
Upcoming hearings
Past Hearings
Logistical Information
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Evidence
Evidence Overview
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Background Presentations to Inquiry Hearings
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Opening Statements
Opening Statement of Counsel to the Inquiry
(pdf : 255 KB )
Opening Statement submitted on behalf of the patients and families represented by Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors
(pdf : 235 KB )
Inquest Opening Statement
(pdf : 498 KB )
ICBs' Opening Statement
(pdf : 366 KB )
EPUT Opening Statement
(pdf : 685 KB )
NELFT Opening Statement
(pdf : 76 KB )
DHSC Opening Statement
(pdf : 79 KB )
NHS England Opening Statement
(pdf : 348 KB )
CQC Opening Statement
(pdf : 241 KB )
Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Opening Statement
(pdf : 31 KB )
Lydia Fraser-Ward Opening Statement
(pdf : 299 KB )
Opening Statement on behalf of the Families represented by Bindmans LLP
(pdf : 637 KB )
Opening Statement on behalf of Core Participant, Michelle Booroff, represented by Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
(pdf : 225 KB )
Opening Statement on behalf of the Families represented by Leigh Day
(pdf : 301 KB )
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About
About Inquiries
About the Lampard Inquiry
Scope of the Lampard Inquiry
Terms of Reference
Final Terms of Reference
Explanatory Note on Scope
List of Issues
Statement of Approach
Inquiry Team
Terminology and Glossary
Financial Report
FAQs
General FAQs
Terms of Reference FAQs
Hearings FAQS
Evidence FAQS
Core Participant and Witness FAQs
Policies and Protocols
Protocol on Core Participants
Hearings Protocols
Protocol for April 2025 Hearing
Protocol on the Questioning of Witnesses in Oral Hearings
Witnesses Protocols
Compelling Witnesses
Protocol on Witness Statements
Protocol on Vulnerable Witnesses
Protocol on Whistleblowing
Anonymity and Restriction Orders
Patient Identity Restriction Orders
Patient Anonymity
Restriction Orders
Protocol on Restriction Orders
Costs protocols
Protocol on Legal Costs
Protocol on Witness Expenses
Protocol on Applications for
Core Participant Legal Funding
Notice of Determination
Information Handling
Statement of approach: Redaction, Data Protection and Privacy
Protocol on Documents
Privacy Information Notice
Prohibition on the destruction
of documents
Lampard Inquiry Disclosure Update – March 2025
Appropriate Policy Document
Protocol on the Role and Appointment of Assessors
Protocol on Equality, Diversity
and Inclusion
Hearings
Overview
Upcoming hearings
Past Hearings
Logistical Information
Hearings FAQS
Evidence
Evidence Overview
Opening Statements
Evidence
Background Presentations to Inquiry Hearings
Evidence FAQS
Participants and Witnesses
Core Participants
Statement of Approach
How to Apply
List of Core Participants
Compelling Witnesses
Core Participant and Witness FAQs
Support
Emotional support provided by the Inquiry
Support Services
Safeguarding
Contact
Updates