[13][3] Both men died after being assaulted by police officers, and both of the inquests set up following their deaths denied their families access to relevant information.

[31][32] In 2016 Inquest used Freedom of Information requests to compile a report finding that at least nine young people had died since 2010 while in-patients in mental health units, and called for such deaths to be statutorily notified and investigated.

This review backed the proposed Hillsborough Law,[35] formally titled The Public Authority (Accountability) Bill, which was first read in Parliament in March 2017 by Andy Burnham MP and received cross-party support.

Due to the 2017 UK General Election the bill dropped off the parliamentary calendar, but lawyers, MPs, Hillsborough families and Inquest are campaigning for it to be brought through Parliament again and implemented.

[37][non-primary source needed] In 2009 Inquest won the Longford Prize, an annual award in the field of social or penal reform.

The judges commended Inquest's "remarkable perseverance, personal commitment and courage in an area too often under-investigated by the public authorities, and especially for its support for the families of those who have taken their own lives while in the care of the state".