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Prediction: Hillsborough Law duty of candour will be introduced by April 2025

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Before any legislation for the proposed Hillsborough Law is introduced, there will be fundamental questions to be addressed, particularly over the implications of the planned duty of candour on the right to silence and the right against self-incrimination. Following the King's Speech and the Labour Party conference, Sir Kier Starmer promised that the Hillsborough Law will be introduced in Parliament before April 2025 to establish a legal duty of candour for public authorities in the aftermath of major public tragedies. Back in 2017 when the original Public Authority (Accountability) Bill was introduced by Andy Burnham MP, its aim was to "protect other families from going through what the Hillsborough families went through and from a similar miscarriage of justice." The Bill fell due to the general election in 2017 and there is currently no draft legislation before Parliament. It is anticipated that any future wording will closely align with that of the 2017 Bill.

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