Responses to Counsel Assisting’s Final Submissions

In the Final Hearing Senior Counsel Assisting, Peter Gray QC and Peter Rozen QC, presented oral and written submissions on behalf of the Counsel Assisting team over two days. The written submissions included 124 proposed recommendations and an annexure on the timing of implementation of these proposed recommendations.

Responses to Counsel Assisting’s final submissions were invited following the hearing, to address the recommendations and a number of additional matters raised. Submissions closed on 12 November 2020.

Set out below is a selection of these submissions that were received.

These submissions are published without any adoption or endorsement by the Royal Commissioners and without any comment by the Royal Commissioners on the material contained in them.

The Royal Commissioners reserve the right not to publish certain submissions or to redact information within a submission. This includes circumstances where the information is not relevant to the issues in question, where matters are subject to a non-publication order or where there are privacy concerns about the information included.