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The Solicitor to the Inquiry
14 The Chairman decided that, in view of the probable involvement of the DoH as a participant in the Inquiry, it would be inappropriate for departmental lawyers to act on behalf of the Inquiry. Consequently, HM Treasury Solicitor was approached to provide legal assistance. Peter Whitehurst and Charlotte Martin, both from the Treasury Solicitor's Department, were appointed to head the Inquiry Solicitor's team.
15 They, in turn, recruited a team of lawyers to support them in obtaining evidence and witness statements, calling witnesses to give oral evidence, instructing and assisting Counsel to the Inquiry, and in writing the accounts of the evidence heard by the Inquiry which form the basis of this Annex.
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