How judges can navigate inquiries into tragedies like the Grenfell fire

Sir Oliver Popplewell, a retired High Court judge who presided over the Bradford stadium fire inquiry in 1985, and Ashley Underwood, a public law QC, tell Jonathan Ames Sir Martin Moore-Bick must buckle up and accept that as chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry criticism is inevitable.Linda Tsang also speaks to Dr Laura Janes, legal director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, about the case of AB, a boy whose solitary confinement in a young offender institution was ruled unlawful this month.

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