Appointment of two members to the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Kate Eves and Andrew Harris as members of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Kate Eves and Andrew Harris as members of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody for a period of 3 years for 3 December 2024 for Andrew Harris, and 10 December 2024 for Kate Eves.
Established in 2009, the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAPDC) forms part of the Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody in England and Wales. The IAPDC provides expert advice and challenge to Ministers, departments, and agencies with the central aim of preventing deaths in custody.
This appointment is made by the Secretary of State for Justice in consultation with the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office, who co-sponsor and co-fund the IAPDC.
Appointments are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments and recruitment processes comply with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.
Biographies
Kate Eves
Until January 2024 was the Chair of the Brook House Inquiry, investigating mistreatment at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. Prior to this she has been the Senior Advisor to the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Centre in the USA and has worked as an Assistant Ombudsman (Head of Suicide and Homicide Investigation Team) for the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman and as a Researcher for HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. She has also previously worked as First Secretary to the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody.
Andrew Harris
Coroner Andrew Harris recently retired after 13 years as Senior Coroner for London Inner South, where he sat on over 60 inquests into deaths in detention and is now a part -time Assistant Coroner in South London. He is an Honorary Professor in Coronial Law at William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary’s University of London. In 2016 he was called to give evidence to the Independent Review of Deaths in Police Custody (Angiolini Report). He is dually qualified in medicine and law, having practised as a public health consultant. He has published in various journals, recently on suicide inquests, and is author of four chapters of the standard law textbook “Jervis on Coroners”.