Public authorities would have to be proactively truthful in future inquiries if the law is passed
Families whose relatives died due to Covid-19 have called on the government to urgently introduce the “Hillsborough law”, which would require public authorities to be proactively truthful in investigations, court proceedings and inquiries.
The legal duty would oblige ministers, government departments and advisers to have a “duty of candour” towards the forthcoming public inquiry into how and why more than 150,000 people have died in the pandemic.
