As a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, Christine Gifford led the Panel on the discovery and disclosure of the information subsequently put in the public domain in support of the Report of the Panel in September 2012. In this podcast she discusses the process that the Panel put in place and the challenges they faced on the journey.
Christine Gifford was a member of Jack Straw’s Openness in Government Working Party which was involved in the drafting of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Subsequently she acted as an adviser to the Lord Chancellor on the implementation of the Act. She is a recognised expert on access to information and has worked not only with public sector organisations in the UK but also in Europe, South America and India. She has been a member of the Advisory Panel on the Use of Public Sector Information and is currently a member of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives.