The Inquiry held a remote preliminary hearing regarding the fitness of Abdalraouf Abdallah to give evidence.
This hearing included a restriction session, which was not streamed to the Inquiry YouTube channel. The second part of the session was open and is available on YouTube. This part of the hearing was operating on a 10-minute delay.
On 1 October there was a preliminary hearing to consider restriction order applications for Chapter 14.
The hearing was streamed to the Inquiry YouTube channel. The stream was operating on a 10-minute delay.
On 16 February, the Inquiry heard submissions on hearing arrangements for the then current phase of the Covid-19 national lockdown.
The Inquiry also heard submissions on the application by Abdalraouf Abdallah to prevent disclosure of two redacted expert reports to Core Participants.
Both sessions were streamed to the Inquiry YouTube Channel. Please note that the afternoon session was operating on a 10-minute delay.
A preliminary hearing will be held on Thursday 14 January 2021 at 10:30 to hear submissions on the proposed arrangements for the Inquiry resuming on 18 January.
The preliminary hearing will be available to watch via the Inquiry YouTube channel, operating on live stream without a delay.
A Preliminary Hearing was held on 12 October which considered a GMP Restriction Order Application.
A Preliminary Hearing covered protocol and legal matters related to the Inquiry main hearings.
The hearing was streamed to the Inquiry YouTube channel. The stream was operating on a 10 minute delay.
The hearing will be rescheduled to take place at a later date.
A preliminary hearing was held on 23 July 2020 at 11.00am via Zoom to discuss the topic of Restriction Orders. Given the topic of the hearing, proceedings were not live-streamed to the Inquiry Youtube channel.
A preliminary hearing was held on 13 July 2020 at 10.00am via video link only and was live-streamed to the Inquiry’s YouTube channel.
A preliminary hearing was held on 2 June 2020 via video link only and was live-streamed to the Inquiry’s YouTube channel. The hearing considered a Core Participant application made by the Fire Brigades Union.
A preliminary hearing was held on 7 April 2020 via video link only. It had an amended agenda to deal with one issue; an application for designation as Core Participants survivors of the Arena attack.
On 28 January 2020, the Chairman of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, Sir John Saunders, held a further preliminary hearing at Manchester Town Hall in Central Manchester.
Further hearings are planned for 20 March 2020 and 6 May 2020