Hearings on Diana Death
January 8, 2007
Preliminary hearings for the inquest into the death of Princess Diana were to take place today at the High Court in London.
The meetings come nearly a decade after Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash, and three years after the inquests were first opened.
Britain’s former top female judge Baroness Butler-Sloss has come out of retirement to preside over the case. She called the initial hearings today and tomorrow to hear legal argument.
She will assess whether there is any need for a jury and discuss whether separate or joint inquests will be held.
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