This hybrid seminar is brought to you by the Garden Court Chambers Inquests and Inquiries Team.
| Date: | Thursday 11 September 2025 |
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| Time: | 6.00pm-7.30pm |
| Venue: | Garden Court Chambers, 9 Carmelite Street, London, EC4Y 0DR |
| Cost: | Free |
| Areas of Law: | Inquests and Inquiries, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Claims Against the Police and Public Authorities |
This panel discussion will review the impact of the public inquiry, one year on from the report’s publication.
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was created to examine the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the fire at Grenfell Tower on the night of 14 June 2017. The Phase 2 report (final report) was published in September 2024, and examined the causes of the fire.
The report concluded that the fire at Grenfell Tower was the “culmination of decades of failure” by central government as well as bodies in the construction industry to identify the risk of using combustible materials to clad high-rise residential buildings.
Garden Court barristers were among the team that represented the Bereaved Families, Survivors and Residents of the Grenfell tragedy.
This event will feature a wide-ranging panel of speakers, including from the Fire Brigades Union, bereaved families, and members of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry legal team.
Further speaker details will be announced shortly.
Speakers
Allison Munroe KC, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers (Chair)
Allison Munroe KC has a mixed practice specialising in Family Public Law, Inquests/Inquiries, Crime and Mental Health. In all spheres of her work, she has focused upon acting for vulnerable clients with a particular emphasis on the protection of their civil liberties. Allison has extensive expertise and experience working on large scale Inquests and Public Inquiries of national and international importance. She represented a number of the bereaved families in the historic Hillsborough Inquests (2014-2016). Presently she represents some of the Bereaved Families in the Grenfell Tower Fire Public Inquiry, as well as survivors and residents.
Thalia Maragh, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Thalia Maragh acts for bereaved families in Article 2 inquests and is a leading junior in Inquests and Public Inquiries. She is currently instructed on behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK (CBFFJ UK) in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry over several modules and has also appeared in several leading inquests and public inquiries. Thalia represented the families in the Hillsborough Inquests, the bereaved, survivors and residents in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry (in phases 1 and 2), a person of interest in the Public Inquiry into the Manchester Arena Bombings and survivors of sexual abuse in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). Additionally, she has acted for bereaved families in Coroner’s Court proceedings in Jamaica and is an advocate for the reform of Jamaica’s Coroner’s Court proceedings.
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In-person tickets are limited by the venue’s capacity. After you have completed the form, we will be back in touch to confirm whether a place is available at the event.
