Reply #50: I have the same questions.

[Moosepoop]

Does Hutton really have the final say? I don't know anything about the legal system there, but the two articles linked in OP quote language that make me wonder.

The info in the linked articles originates from a letter written by Nick Grasham, the Oxfordshire County Council's "assistant head of legal and democratic services." The letter was written to a group of doctors who were challenging Hutton's finding of Kelly's death being a suicide.

In the letter from Grasham to the doctors, Grasham wrote:

"Lord Hutton made a request for the records provided to the inquiry, not produced in evidence, to be closed for 30 years, and that medical (including post-mortem) reports and photographs be closed for 70 years."

It was a "request," not an actual ruling? Who was the "request" made to?? Who approved it, and who, if anyone, has the power to challenge or overturn it?

Nicholas Gardener, Oxfordshire's Chief Coroner, was quoted in the Daily Mail as having said on Sunday:

"I know that Lord Hutton made that recommendation. Someone told me at the time. Anybody concerned will be dead by then, and that is quite clearly Lord Hutton’s intention."

Again, it was only a "recommendation," not an actual ruling?? Who was the "recommendation" made to? Who approved it, and who, if anyone, has the power to challenge or overturn it?

And if someone does have to power to overturn it, will they??