Hello and welcome to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast. I'm Eddie Mayer. Our plan with this

podcast is quite straightforward. We want to report every night the inquiry is sitting. We're going to

try to explain the technical evidence and demystify the jargon so we all have some understanding

of what's going on. Our nightly reports from inside the inquiry start on Monday.

But there's a great deal to talk about and think about before then.

In this podcast, we're taking a closer look at the person who's chairing the inquiry.

71-year-old retired judge Sir Martin Moore Bick.

If you're thinking Sir Martin Moore who, we can help.

After being called to the bar in 1969,

Martin Mour Bick spent the next 20 years specialising in commercial contract law.

He was a famous commercial advocate,

doing lots of very low-key but significant in the commercial

world type cases concerning insurance policies, shipping those sort of issues.

Lord Faulkner met him after Martin Mourbik had become a judge for the Court of Appeal.

Martin Mourbic advised two Lord Chancellor's.

He's a very decent man in the sense that he will always do what he perceives to be the right thing. He is a man of immense

industry. He will always get on top of all of the detail. He is a man of empathy in that he is an

understanding individual. He's quiet. In a professional context,

he sees his role as to do a job and to do it efficiently, effectively and in accordance with

defined principles. But however much Lord Faulkner respects Martin Moore-Bick's experience,

he thinks the Grenfell inquiry presents a situation Martin Mourbick has never faced before.

Martin Mourbik's standing as a judge has been always on the basis of the quality of what he has produced,

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