THE PENROSE INQUIRY
Final Report

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Appendix 3

Core Participants

The following individuals and organisations were designated by the Inquiry Chairman under Rule 4 of the Inquiries (Scotland) Rules 2007, which provides that:

(1) The chairman may designate a person as a core participant at any time during the course of the inquiry (but only with the consent of that person).

(2) In deciding whether to designate a person as a core participant the chairman must have particular regard for the desirability of including as core participants persons who-

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(b) have a significant interest in an important aspect of the matters to which the inquiry relates....

Legal representatives of Core Participants are noted at the top of each table.

Personal representative of those whose deaths were investigated under Term of Reference 6 Legal Representative: Thompsons Solicitors
Mrs Jeanie Black as personal representative of the Reverend David Black
Mrs Roseleen Kennedy as personal representative of Mrs Eileen O'Hara
Mrs Annie Laing as personal representative of Alexander Black Laing
Mrs Jean Tamburrini as personal representative of Victor Tamburrini
Anonymised Core Participants, designated by Chairman to illustrate different grouping of interests Legal Representative: Thompsons Solicitors
Transfusion cases up to and including 1979 - JF
Transfusion cases in the 1980s - EF; KM
Transfusion cases in the 1990s - No designation [Mrs Annie Laing, as representative of Alexander Black Laing, deceased, is already designated and covers that interest]
Hepatitis C cases associated with Haemophilia A up to and including 1979 - FM; PD
Hepatitis C cases associated with Haemophilia A in the 1980s - MM; BW; JM2
Hepatitis C cases associated with Haemophilia B up to and including 1979 - DB; IB; JD
Hepatitis C cases associated with Haemophilia B in the 1980s - RM
HIV cases associated with Haemophilia A or B - JM; GM; KM2; JM2
Patient interest organisations designated as core participants under rule 4 (2) (b) Legal Representative: Thompsons Solicitors
The Haemophilia Society
Haemophilia Scotland (designated February 2014)

The Common Services Agency, the 14 area Health Boards and Scottish Ministers were designated under the other provisions of rule 4 (2) of the Inquiries (Scotland) Rules 2007.

Designated as Core Participants under provisions of rule 4 (2) Legal Representative: Directorate for Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government)
The Scottish Ministers
Designated as Core Participants under provisions of rule 4 (2) Legal Representative: Central Legal Office (CLO)
The Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service (on behalf of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service)
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board
Borders Health Board
Dumfries & Galloway Health Board
Fife Health Board
Forth Valley Health Board
Grampian Health Board
Greater Glasgow Health Board
Highland Health Board
Lanarkshire Health Board
Lothian Health Board
Orkney Health Board
Shetland Health Board
Tayside Health Board
Western Islands Health Board

Appendix 4: Inquiry Witnesses >