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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Patrick Daly

Covid inquiry chairwoman ‘sympathetic’ to request to delay first hearing

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The retired judge leading the UK Covid Inquiry said she is “sympathetic” to a request made to delay the first public hearing by a month.

Baroness Hallett had heard how the process of making “thousands of manual redactions” to UK Government papers submitted to the inquiry had slowed down the process of disclosing information to bereaved families and other relevant groups.

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