Ah ok, thanks for clearing up. The way I see it (from here) it is supposed to be a european inquiry over the Hillsborough inquiry, and not a re-opening of the case. Thereby if they find the H. inquiry to be insufficient it might be a breach on human right and violates democratic norms on properly inquiring these sort of events (according to the precedent). However I'm completely lost on this sentence by the end It will be necessary to put in a fresh application to the Attorney General as the Human Rights Act does not apply retrospectively. What do they mean? How does this affect the chances of the attorney re-doing the inquiry? If conduct of the original inquiry is proven to be a breach on human rights then surely that would a mighty good reason to reinquire, no?