Hearing

Times & Dates

 Background information
 Full list of witnesses
 Timings of hearings

Lord Hutton will deliver a statement in Court 76 at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday 28
January 2004, the date on which his report will be published. The statement will be delivered at
12.30pm after the report has been laid before Parliament but before its publication. This timing
was arranged after discussions between Lord Hutton, the DCA and House authorities. The
statement will be a substantial summary of Lord Hutton’s findings. Publication of the Report will
take place at 1.30pm.

Lord Hutton’s statement will be followed by a statement by the Prime Minister in the House of
Commons and by the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, Lord
Falconer, in the House of Lords.

Although this is primarily a media event, 10 seats will be made available in Court 76 for
members of the public. The Court will open at 11.45am. An annex, in Court 75, will also be set
up where there will be seating for 40 members of the public, who will be able to view the
statement on screens. Seats will be available on a 'first come' 'first served' basis. Tickets for the
public will be allocated by staff at the Royal Courts of Justice at 10.00am on Wednesday 28
January, at the Bell Yard entrance of the Royal Courts of Justice.

Background information

Lord Hutton began hearing the evidence of witnesses on the 11 August 2003. He adjourned on
4 September to consider which witnesses he wanted to recall for cross-examination, as well as
any new witnesses he wanted to call.

Lord Hutton began the second phase of his Inquiry on 15 September, before adjourning on 25
September 2003 to write his Report. The evidence of one witness, Sir Kevin Tebbit, was heard
on 13 October because he was unable to attend during the second phase of the Inquiry.

Full list of witnesses

 Phase One witnesses

 Phase Two witnesses

The table below provides a full list of the witnesses who appeared before Lord Hutton during the
course of his Inquiry.

Date Witness

First phase of the Inquiry

Friday, 1 - Lord Hutton's opening statement and application for

August the proceedings to be televised
2003

Monday, 11 - Terence Taylor, President and Executive Director for

August the International Institute of Strategic Studies (US)
2003
 - Richard Hatfield, Personnel Director MoD

- Martin Howard, Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence

MoD

- Patrick Lamb, Deputy Head of the Counter

Proliferation Department FCO

- Julian Miller, Chief of the Assessment Staff, Cabinet

Office

Tuesday, 12 - Andrew Gilligan, BBC Reporter

August
2003 - Susan Watts, BBC Reporter

Wednesday, - Susan Watts, BBC Reporter

13 August
2003 - Gavin Hewitt, BBC Reporter

- Richard Sambrook, Head of News, BBC

Thursday, - Dr Bryan Wells, Director of Counter Proliferation and

14 August Arms Control, MoD
2003
- Patrick Lamb, Deputy Head of the Counter
Proliferation Department, FCO

- Martin Howard, Deputy Chief of Defence

Intelligence, MoD

- John Williams, Director of Communications, FCO

Monday, 18 - Pam Teare, Director of News, MoD

August
2003 - Jonathan Powell, Prime Minister's Chief of Staff

- Sir David Manning, former foreign policy adviser to

the Prime Minister, and head of the overseas and
defence secretariat in the Cabinet Office

Tuesday, 19 - Alastair Campbell, Prime Minister's Director of

August Communications
2003

Wednesday, - Sir Kevin Tebbit, Permanent Secretary, MoD

20 August
2003 - Godric Smith, Prime Minister's Official Spokesman

- Tom Kelly, Prime Minister's Official Spokesman

Thursday, - Donald Anderson MP, Foreign Affairs Select

21 August Committee
2003
- Nick Rufford - Sunday Times, journalist
 - James Blitz - Financial Times, journalist

- Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, journalist

- Peter Beaumont, The Observer, journalist

- Tom Baldwin, The Times, journalist

- Michael Evans, The Times, journalist

- David Broucher, Diplomatic Service and Permanent

Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in
Geneva, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

- Lee Hughes, Hutton Inquiry Secretariat

Tuesday, 26 - Andrew MacKinlay MP, Foreign Affairs Select

August Committee
2003
- John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence
Committee

- Sir David Omand, Cabinet Office

Wednesday, - Geoff Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Defence

27 August
2003 - Wing Commander John Clark, Proliferation and
Arms Control Secretariat, MoD

- James Harrison, Deputy Director Counter

Proliferation and Arms Control, MoD

- Ann Taylor MP, Chair of Intelligence and Security

Committee

Thursday, - Tony Blair MP, Prime Minister

28 August
2003 - Gavyn Davies, Chairman of the Board of Governors,
BBC

Monday, 1 - Mrs Kelly, Family

September
2003 - Sarah Pape, Family

- Rachel Kelly, Family

- Professor Roger Avery, Friend

- David Wilkins, Family

Tuesday, 2 - Ruth Absalom, Neighbour

September
2003 - Dr Malcolm Warner, GP
 - Louise Holmes, Search team

- Paul Chapman, Search team

- PC Andrew Franklin, Thames Valley Police

- PC Martyn Sawyer, Thames Valley Police

- Sergeant Geoffrey Webb, Thames Valley Police

- PC Jonathan Martyn, Thames Valley Police

- Vanessa Hunt, Ambulance

- David Bartlett, Ambulance

- Barney Leith, Baha'i faith

- Professor Hawton, Psychiatrist

Wednesday, - Richard Allan, Toxicologist

3
September - Assistant Chief Constable Page, Thames Valley
2003 Police

- Steven Macdonald, Assistant Director on the Central

Budget, Security
and Safety, MoD

- Dr Brian Jones, former branch head in the Scientific

and Technical Directorate of the Defence Intelligence
Analysis Staff

- Mr A, casually employed civil servant with the

Counter Proliferation Arms Control Department, MoD

- Mr Green, Forensic Biologist

- Patrick Lamb, Deputy Head of the Counter

Proliferation Department, FCO

Thursday, 4 - Olivia Bosch, Colleague

September
2003 - Leigh Potter, Neighbour

- Tom Mangold, Journalist

- Richard Taylor, Special Advisor to Secretary of

State for Defence

Second phase of the Inquiry

Monday, 15 - Counsel's opening statement

September
2003 - Tony Cragg, Former Deputy Chief of Defence
 Intelligence

- Air Marshal J French, Former Chief of Defence

Intelligence

- Sir Richard Dearlove, Chief of the Secret

Intelligence Service

- Dr Richard Scott, Director, Science for the Defence

Science & Technology Laboratory

- Greg Dyke, Director-General of the BBC

Tuesday, 16 - DC Graham Coe, Police Officer, Thames Valley

September Police
2003
- Dr Nicholas Hunt, Forensic Pathologist

- Martin Howard, Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence

- Dr Shuttleworth - Defence, Science & Technology

Laboratory

- Kate Wilson - Chief Press Officer, MoD

Wednesday, - Andrew Gilligan, Reporter, BBC

17
September - Richard Sambrook, Head of News, BBC
2003
- Richard Hatfield, Director of Personnel, MoD

Thursday, - Richard Hatfield, Personnel Director, MoD

18
September - Pamela Teare, Director of News, MoD
2003
- Edward Wilding, Computer Investigator

- Professor A J Sammes, Professor of Computer

Science and Director of the Centre for Forensic
Computing at Cranfield University

- Andrew Gilligan, Reporter, BBC

Monday, 22 - Geoffrey Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Defence

September
2003 - Lee Hughes, Secretary to the Inquiry

- Alastair Campbell, Prime Minister's Director of

Communications

Tuesday, 23 - Tom Kelly, Prime Minister's Official Spokesman

September
2003 - Godric Smith, Prime Minister's Official Spokesman

- John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence

 Committee

Wednesday, - Gavyn Davies, Chairman of the BBC Board of

24 Governors
September
2003 - Patrick Lamb, Deputy Head of the Counter
Proliferation Department, FCO

- Dr Bryan Wells, Director of Counter Proliferation and

Arms Control, MoD

- James Harrison, Deputy Director Counter

Proliferation and Arms Control, MoD

- Wing Commander John Clark, Proliferation and

Arms Control Secretariat, MoD

- Nick Rufford, Sunday Times journalist

- Professor Keith Hawton, Psychiatrist

- Richard Hatfield, Personnel Director, MoD

Thursday, Closing Statements:

25
September - Jeremy Gompertz QC, Counsel for the Kelly family
2003
- Jonathan Sumption QC, Counsel for the
Government

- Andrew Caldecott QC, Counsel for the BBC

- Heather Rogers QC, Counsel for Andrew Gilligan

- James Dingemans QC, Counsel for the Inquiry

- Closing statement by Lord Hutton

Monday, 13 Sir Kevin Tebbit, Permanent Secretary MoD

October
2003

Timings of hearings

All hearings took place in Courtroom 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. An overflow
annex with video links was provided in Court 72. A media annex was also set up in the
Quadrangle of the Royal Courts of Justice.

The timings below are based on a standard day on which Lord Hutton was hearing evidence
from witnesses.

9:00am Royal Courts of Justice opens to the public

 Reporters and members of the public wishing
to attend the hearings should use the Bell
Yard entrance on the east of the RCJ
between Carey Street and Strand.
Daily public seating tickets issued at Bell
9:15am Yard entrance (on a first-come-first-served
basis)
Courts 72 & 73, and the media annex in the
9:50am
quadrangle, open.
10:20am All seated in Court 73
10:30am Hearing starts
Lunch adjournment (courts and media annex
1:00pm
close)

Court 72 & 73, and the media annex in the

1:20pm
quadrangle, open
1:50pm All seated in Court 73
2:00pm Hearing re-convenes
4:15pm End of day’s hearing