The British government on Thursday (June 1st) refused to provide documents requested as part of the public inquiry into the management of the pandemic. Former magistrate Heather Hallett had given until Thursday afternoon to the Cabinet Office, the services of the government, for all the required elements to be handed over to her.
The Cabinet Office refused to comply and said on Thursday, an hour after the deadline, that it had "sought leave to launch judicial review" The government says it wants to ensure that investigators have "the power to demand documents and messages that are unambiguously unrelated to the work"