2025 Fatal Accident Inquiry Review – call for evidence

Closes 13 Sep 2025

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Questions about your experience

1. Please summarise your experience of, or interest in, the Fatal Accident Inquiry system.

Please use this question as your opportunity to tell us more about you and your experience so that we can better understand your answers to other questions. 

For example

  • If your experience is a personal one and you are able to, please tell us about where and when the death occurred, and what your relationship was to the person who died. 
  • If your experience is a professional one, please set out what your role usually is in an FAI.
  • If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, please set out any relevant background to your organisation’s activities in relation to FAIs. 
2. In your view, what is a Fatal Accident Inquiry for and do they achieve that?

For example, when you first heard about FAIs did you understand what they were supposed to achieve? Has your understanding changed since then?

Do you think that what they are trying to achieve is worthwhile, or the right thing? If not, what should they be designed to do?