The Undercover Policing Inquiry begins in November 2019. The first hearings will cover events from the formation of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968 until 1972. The first seven days (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 & 10 November) will hear opening statements from involved parties. These will be livestreamed, presumably from the Inquiry's evidence […]
The Undercover Policing Inquiry begins in November 2019. The first hearings will cover events from the formation of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968 until 1972. The first seven days (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 & 10 November) will hear opening statements from involved parties. These will be livestreamed, presumably from the Inquiry's evidence […]
The public inquiry into Britain's political secret police is finally going to start. Join us for a socially distanced protest at the Inquiry's monitoring venue on the first day it's open, Wednesday 11 November, 8-9am. Seven years after the Home Secretary promised it, the first phase of hearings will take place over three weeks in […]
The Undercover Policing Inquiry begins in November 2019. The first hearings will cover events from the formation of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968 until 1972. The first seven days (2-10 November) will hear opening statements from involved parties. After this, the Inquiry will be hearing evidence from witnesses for another seven days (11, 12, […]
The Undercover Policing Inquiry begins in November 2019. The first hearings will cover events from the formation of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968 until 1972. The first seven days (2-10 November) will hear opening statements from involved parties. After this, the Inquiry will be hearing evidence from witnesses for another seven days (11, 12, […]
We are getting ready for the next part of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. There will be a new set of hearings from Wednesday 21st April – Friday 14th May, covering the activities of the Special Demonstration Squad between 1973 and 1982. We would like to make sure that news about the Inquiry, and about the […]
Online meeting to celebrate and learn from the significant victory of the 'Shrewsbury 24' in quashing their almost 50-year-old convictions. Speakers: Ricky Tomlinson (Shrewsbury Picket and jailed trade unionist) John McDonnell (Labour MP) Dave Smith (Blacklist Support Group) Piers Marquis and Annabel Timan (Doughty Street Chambers barristers) The Shrewsbury 24 were pickets wrongfully arrested and […]
Kate Wilson outside the Royal Courts of Justice, 3 October 2018 Kate Wilson was deceived into a long term intimate relationship by Mark Stone, who she now knows was undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. A decade after Kate's legal case against the police began, it concludes with a hearing at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal from […]
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is holding its second round of hearings (Tranche 1, Phase 2) between 21 April and 14 May 2021. At these hearings, the Inquiry will hear from undercover officers and non-state witnesses about the Special Demonstration Squad between 1973 and 1982. The first three days (21-23 April) will hear prepared opening statements […]
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is holding its next round of hearings, taking evidence from witnesses covering 1973-1982. There are three days of opening statements, 21-23 April, which will be live streamed. After that, there will be three weeks of evidence hearings. These will not be live streamed online because this 'public' inquiry, unlike others, is […]