Grenfell Tower Fire: The Avoidable Tragedy

Dr Thomas MacManus (Queen Mary University of London School of Law)

On 14th June 2017, the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, London caught fire killing a large number of residents. We seek to bring together experts on crime, human rights and health &amp; safety regulations to hear their reaction to the tragedy in order to try to understand what happened, and how justice could be achieved. After the speakers (who may be subject to change), we will have about one hour for a town hall style Q&A session.
 
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Joe Delaney 
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Dr Vickie Cooper: Grenfell Tower as Housing Violence
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Prof David Whyte: The Violence of Financial Capitalism
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Hilda Palmer (Hazards Campaign): We Love Red Tape
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Prof Steve Tombs: Grenfell as Corporate Manslaughter
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Matt Wrack (General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union): The De-regulation Agenda
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Prof Geraldine Van Bueren QC: The Human Right to Housing
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Radical Housing Network (TBC): The Managed Decline of Council Housing
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Helen Wildbore (BIHR) Senior Human Rights Officer: Accountability under the Human Rights Act
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John Cooper QC: Grenfell - Doing it Justice
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This event is jointly hosted by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI, www.statecrime.org) and the Human Rights Collegium at Queen Mary University of London School of Law (http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/humanrights/). The organisers are Dr Thomas MacManus, Dr Daniela Nadj, Nicole Lieberman, Mark Byrne and Louise Wise.
 
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More about the speakers:
 
 
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC Professor Van Bueren is Professor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.
 
Professor David Whyte David Whyte is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Liverpool where he researches issues related to corporate violence and corporate corruption. David is the editor of How Corrupt is Britain? (Pluto Press, 2015). He is co-author of The Violence of Austerity.
 
Hilda Palmer Coordinator, Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Chair of the National Hazards Campaign. #WeLoveRedTape
 
Dr Vickie Cooper Vickie Cooper is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University where she is Co-Director of HERC (Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative) and researches issues related to homelessness, criminal justice system, housing and eviction. She is co-author of The Violence of Austerity.
 
John Cooper QC John Cooper is a barrister specialising in human rights and criminal law. He practises with 25 Bedford Row.
 
Matt Wrack General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union.
 
Professor Steve Tombs Steve Tombs is Professor of Criminology at the Open University. He has a long-standing interest in the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate crime.
 
Helen Wildbore Helen Wildbore is Senior Human Rights Officer at the British Institute of Human Rights and has worked on human rights and equality in the third sector and in academia. Helen leads on BIHR’s research and policy work on the Human Rights Act and ECHR.
 
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