Survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing have been refused ‘core participant’ status during an inquiry into the attack. Chairman Sir John Saunders has insisted that the survivors will still have a voice in the inquiry and has encouraged them to contribute.
His decision today relates to the 56 people who survived the atrocity and applied for ‘core participant’ status. A chairman of any public inquiry may designate a person or organisation as a core participant.
If granted, core participants may receive advance disclosure of evidence, make statements at certain hearings or apply through their legal representatives to a chairman to ask questions of certain witnesses.
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