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Sarah Simcock, as junior to Jason Beer, is acting for 12 soldiers of the First Battalion of the Queen’s Lancastrian Regiment in the Baha Mousa public inquiry.
The inquiry is into the circumstances surrounding the death of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi civilian, in September 2003 and the treatment of other Iraqi civilians who were detained with him by British soldiers in Basra.
For more information, please see the inquiry’s website here.
The inquiry's terms of reference are:
"To investigate and report on the circumstances surrounding the death of Baha Mousa and the treatment of those detained with him, taking account of the investigations which have already taken place, in particular where responsibility lay for approving the practice of conditioning detainees by any members of the 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment in Iraq in 2003, and to make recommendations."
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