'Taking the Fifth'? Methinks they have something to hide.

While we don't have a "fifth amendment" as such there is a principal that one may withhold certain evidence if it might be construed as a confession, unless of course one is making a confession. Doing so is colloquially as "Pleading the fifth".

Okay. Someone at some point had suggested that not answering was a confession in your system.

While we don't have a "fifth amendment" as such there is a principal that one may withhold certain evidence if it might be construed as a confession, unless of course one is making a confession. Doing so is colloquially as "Pleading the fifth".

Okay. Someone at some point had suggested that not answering was a confession in your system.

While we don't have a "fifth amendment" as such there is a principal that one may withhold certain evidence if it might be construed as a confession, unless of course one is making a confession. Doing so is colloquially as "Pleading the fifth".

Okay. Someone at some point had suggested that not answering was a confession in your system.

That was in regards to a Star Chamber.

The inquiry also heard that residents had asked the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) three months before the fire for an assessment of the tower block by an independent health and safety inspector.
An RBKC official wrote to the then-chief executive of the KCTMO that they were "not minded to agree to this request" and that the KCTMO's work had been "more than sufficient".

Inquiry told he had ‘no knowledge’ of rapid fire spread and did not know panels were combustible

Under EU procurement rules, known as OJEU, which applied at the time, public works above a certain threshold have to be put out to open tender. Studio E has already admitted it would not have been selected for the job in competition because it lacked experience in high-rise housing or over-cladding works.

The owners of tall buildings face pressure to continue removing dangerous cladding, despite coronavirus, after a new fire test showed how quickly flames can spread.
Cladding previously deemed safer than that used at Grenfell Tower burned almost as rapidly as the aluminium and plastic panels blamed for the disaster.
These high pressure laminate panels are common in the UK.
However, the government has only recently agreed to fund their removal.
Ministers had suggested taking down this type of cladding was less of a priority than removing the aluminium and plastic type, known as aluminium composite material, or ACM.

A video of the new test*, passed to the BBC, shows flames reaching the top of a 9m (30ft) test wall in seven minutes and 45 seconds with temperatures approaching 700C.
The test should last 30 minutes and the temperature recorded should stay below 600C.
The results mean the cladding system failed to meet the required standard but what concerns the engineer who commissioned the test is the speed at which the flames spread.
In identical standardised tests carried out by the government, the Grenfell type of ACM cladding, failed in between five and six and a half minutes.

His younger colleague Tomas Rek, who followed him in the witness box, was clear about the priority.
When asked why sleek, zinc cladding had been chosen for the new-look tower, he said: "Based just on the aesthetics."
It looked better, it was also less likely to burn in a fire - but a third factor got in the way - cost.

We have also been taking steps to obtain more personal protective equipment.
Our stocks of surgical masks are good, but supplies of more effective PPE masks and eye-protection visors were running low. So a consultant, Dr Tom Lawton, went to Screwfix to buy industrial masks - and then found a way of attaching medical filters to them, using a 3D printer he keeps in his garage. Another went to a builders' merchants and bought 2,000 pairs of goggles.

Lesley Rudd, chief executive at charity Electrical Safety First, said: "It is alarming that five months into this recall we are only now hearing of these extra models which pose a risk to owners. This new discovery throws into question the robustness of the original investigation."

Whirlpool issues new warning

Lesley Rudd, chief executive at charity Electrical Safety First, said: "It is alarming that five months into this recall we are only now hearing of these extra models which pose a risk to owners. This new discovery throws into question the robustness of the original investigation."