DLA Briefings Orgreave Article

Henrietta Hill QC, Doughty Street Chambers, draws parallels between the way police are alleged to have acted in south Yorkshire at Orgreave during the 1984/5 miners strike and at the terrible events in 1989 at Hillsborough football stadium, Sheffield. She concludes that an inquiry into Orgreave is required especially when rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, and trade union rights more generally, remain under the microscope following the recent passage of the Trade Union Act 2016.

The full article here: DLA Briefings – Orgreave – HH

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