Context
Louis Browne KC gave evidence at the Thirlwall Inquiry on 4 December 2024 as a legal representative, addressing the Trust’s decision-making layer during the 2016–17 period when the consultants were escalating and the executives were not contacting police.
Key ground
Mr Browne’s examination addressed the internal legal advice that shaped executive decision-making, the question of at what point a “reasonable Trust” would have contacted police, and the documentary record of what the Trust’s legal advisers were being told by the executive team about the cluster of deaths.
Read alongside
Tony Chambers, Stephen Cross, and the Hummingbird whistleblower report on how the investigation was presented to police in 2017.