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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Richard Hermer

Voices: The Hillsborough Law will stand as the beating heart of this Labour government

I have spent much of my career representing victims of state and corporate failure. In those cases, I witnessed the same pattern: grieving families left to fight for answers against the authorities, who have much larger resources. This experience left me with a deep conviction that our legal system must do better.

The bare minimum is to provide answers to those who are grieving in the wake of a tragedy, but the law must also help to change the culture that too often allows these incidents to happen in the first place.

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