Just as one tries to weigh, as soberly as possible, the ethical substance of the enquiry, up rises a vision of Peter Rabbit being chased out of Mr. McGregor's garden.
The enquiry set up by Communities minister Ruth Kelly aimed at finding ways to challenge "barriers to integration and cohesion" has published an interim report, that can only be described as contradictory and counterproductive.
Other Lives is far from flawless – the expository dialogue count this week is high to intolerable, and those Vince Vaughn and Kelly Reilly two-handers continue to have a distinct Lifetime TV movie quality to them – but the case itself is unfurling nicely, with new avenues of enquiry opening up everywhere you look.
An enquiry set up by James in 1424 into the dispersal of crown estates since the reign of Robert I exposed legal defects in a number of transactions where the earldoms of Mar, March and Strathearn together with the Black Douglas lordships of Selkirk and Wigtown were found to be problematic.
These were denied by Downing Street when they were posted and when the BBC first made enquiries to follow up the story.
Furthermore, by undertaking standardised verbal autopsy (VA) enquiries to follow-up deaths, cause-specific mortality can be assessed within specific childhood age groups to see which cause groups account for substantial components of overall mortality (6).
For patients notified by the CCLG, the accuracy of the information held by the NRCT is verified and updated through a series of routine follow-up enquiries to the notifying clinicians.
Davies has seen the opposite at Equal Justice Solicitors, where enquiries have gone up.
Given the difficulties, it's perhaps unsurprising that enquiries have shot up at the Emigration Group, a UK-based company which employs former Australian immigration staff and manages visa applications.
My vision is to see this business operate in every city - for now we're in London and Kent - but we've had enquiries already from up and down the country.
