INQUEST

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INQUEST is a charity providing expertise on state-related deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, advice and support agencies, the media and parliamentarians. It supports families affected by deaths in the care or custody of the state -- including in prisons, police custody, immigration detention, mental health and learning disability settings, and in disasters where public and corporate bodies have failed to protect health and safety. Founded in 1981 by bereaved families and friends, and independent of government, the charity works to expose the state failures, violence and injustice that allow these deaths to happen and to support families seeking truth, justice and accountability. Its work spans specialist casework guiding bereaved people through post-death investigation and inquest processes, community building, campaigning informed by casework and statistical monitoring, knowledge-sharing through tracking patterns in contentious deaths, and commemoration. It also convenes the INQUEST Lawyers Group, a national network of lawyers with specialist expertise in inquests into deaths involving the state.

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Founding year

1981

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