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The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 2012

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Hillsborough The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel September 2012

Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 12 September 2012 for

The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel

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Contents

  • Foreword — 1

  • Report summary — 3

  • Part 1: Hillsborough: 'what was known' — 27

  • Part 2: Hillsborough: 'what is added to public understanding' — 59

  • Chapter 1. 1981–1989: unheeded warnings, the seeds of disaster — 61

  • Chapter 2. The 'moment' of 1989 — 87

  • Chapter 3. Custom, practice, roles, responsibilities — 103

  • Chapter 4. Emergency response and aftermath: 'routinely requested to attend' — 131

  • Chapter 5. Medical evidence: the testimony of the dead — 159

  • Chapter 6. Parallel investigations — 181

  • Chapter 7. Civil litigation — 227

  • Chapter 8. The Coroner's inquiry: from the immediate aftermath to the preliminary hearings — 255

  • Chapter 9. The generic hearing, Judicial Review and continuing controversies — 271

  • Chapter 10. The 3.15pm cut-off — 291

  • Chapter 11. Review and alteration of statements — 315

  • Chapter 12. Behind the headlines: the origins, promotion and reproduction of unsubstantiated allegations — 341

  • Part 3: The Permanent Archive for the Hillsborough Disaster — 369

  • Appendix 1. Hillsborough Independent Panel terms of reference — 377

  • Appendix 2. Disclosure process — 381

  • Appendix 3. Research process and method — 387

  • Appendix 4. Retained tissue following post mortem examination — 391

  • Appendix 5. Freedom of information and Parliamentary debate — 393

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