Achas Burin 'Public Inquiries and Parliamentary Privilege'

Dr Achas Burin discusses whether statutory public inquiries, convened under the Inquiries Act 2005, are bound by the doctrine of Parliamentary Privilege. As the doctrinal position is uncertain, she goes on to consider the normative position, concluding inquiries should not be so bound.

Dr Burin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University and is also a barrister, with a specialism in the practice of public inquiries. She has appeared in the Infected Blood Inquiry, the Undercover Policing Public Inquiry, and the Essex Mental Health Inquiry (‘the Lampard Inquiry’). You can read her blog post about the Infected Blood Inquiry here: The Infected Blood Inquiry and the effects of time on prospects for justice | British Politics and Policy at LSE (July 2023)