Chair of the Inquiry
Sir Adrian Fulford
Sir Adrian Fulford has an extensive legal background, particularly on issues relating to policing and the criminal justice system.
He was called to the Bar in 1978 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1994. He was made a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1995, and was appointed as a High Court Judge in November 2002, assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division.
Sir Adrian was a presiding judge of the South-Eastern Circuit from 2009 until appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in May 2013. He served as the Senior Presiding Judge from January 2016 until March 2017.
He is a retired Lord Justice of Appeal and former judge of the International Criminal Court 2003 to 2012. Previously, he was the Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) in 2019 and was the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner between 2017 to 2019.
Counsel to the Inquiry
Nicholas Moss KC
Nicholas Moss KC is a barrister at Temple Garden Chambers who specialises in public inquiries and complex inquests, including in relation to national security, military, policing, custodial and healthcare matters.
His experience as counsel to inquiries and counsel to inquests (CTI) includes: The Forbury Gardens terror attack inquests; The Baha Mousa Public Inquiry (with subsequent lecturing work on HM Armed Forces’ training courses on the importance of implementation of the recommendations); The Detainee Inquiry; The Gleision mining disaster; and inquests into the deaths of Khalil Dale (unlawful killing of Red Cross worker), Thomas Orchard and Aston Mclean (both cases of death following police contact).
In addition to his work as CTI, he has been instructed by participants in many of the UK’s other major public inquiries and Judge-led inquests in the last 25 years. Examples include: The Covid-19 Inquiry; The Infected Blood Inquiry; The Westminster terror attack inquests; The Undercover Policing Inquiry; the Judge-led inquests into the deaths of Benjamin McQueen (military diving fatality) and each of the deaths at Deepcut Barracks; The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry; The Billy Wright Inquiry, The Bloody Sunday Inquiry; and The BSE Inquiry.
As a junior barrister, he was a member of the Attorney General’s panel of civil advocates for over 20 years. He sits part time as an Assistant Coroner in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Coroner area.
Richard Boyle
Richard Boyle is a barrister at Temple Garden Chambers with a broad practice including: inquests and inquiries, public law, human rights, personal injury and clinical negligence. Richard has particular experience of complex and high profile inquests and inquiries which involve issues of national security. He has appeared in: the Fishmongers’ Hall Inquests, the Inquest into the death of Sudesh Amman (who died while committing a terror attack on Streatham High Road), the Manchester Arena Inquiry, the Inquests arising out of the terror attack in Forbury Gardens in Reading (as Counsel to the Inquests), the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry and the Inquest into the death of Rhiann Rudd (the youngest person to have been charged with terror offences in the UK).
John Goss
John Goss is a barrister at 5 Essex Chambers with extensive experience in public inquiries and inquests. He has appeared in the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan, the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry, the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, the Forbury Gardens Inquests, two of the fresh Deepcut Barracks Inquests, and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, amongst many others. As well as inquests and inquiries, his practice covers public law, policing and law enforcement, human rights, information law/data protection, and professional regulation.
Harriet Wakeman
Harriet Wakeman is a barrister at Landmark Chambers, specialising in public inquiries, inquests and public law. Harriet has extensive experience acting both as counsel to the inquiry/inquest, and for core participants. Harriet has been instructed in many of the major public inquiries and inquests over the past five years including: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the Brook House Inquiry, the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, the Cranston Inquiry and the Bugaled Breizh inquests.
Solicitor to the Inquiry
Caroline Featherstone
Caroline Featherstone qualified as a registered nurse in 1986. She worked in the NHS until she changed career in 1998 when she was admitted as a solicitor. Having spent some years working in private practice, Caroline joined the Government Legal Department in 2006 where she gained extensive experience in inquests and public inquiries. Most recently, she was the Solicitor to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Secretary to the Inquiry
Kate Anderson
Kate Anderson is Secretary to the Inquiry. Her role is to support and advise the Inquiry Chair and to lead the Inquiry’s secretariat. Kate has a background in criminal justice. A qualified solicitor, she specialised in representing young people charged with criminal offences before joining the Crown Prosecution Service. Kate was Head of Legal Services in CPS headquarters before becoming a Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, with her roles including Deputy Chief of CPS Wessex and Head of Organised Crime.
Before being appointed as Secretary to the Inquiry, Kate was a Deputy Director at the Independent Commission of Reconciliation and Information Recovery, established to provide information to victims, survivors and their families about deaths and serious injury caused during the period of the Troubles/conflict in Northern Ireland.