i ve been struck in the case of hillsborough but in other cases too, the way in which the state of its various forms tries to defend itself from blame. the very bodies that we expect to protect and support the public seek instead to protect themselves. we need that hillsborough law now. i a new legal duty of candor and that . means no cover ups, no concealments, no closing of ranks. proper legal representation for families in the event - of a public disaster. one of the proposals is for victims to receive the same level of legal funding as the authorities they are up against, something the hillsborough families were denied for years. we re not rich people. we haven t got big fat pensions like the police get. they ve got the money. they got all the help. people like us had to go to the ordinary people and go around campaigning and trying to collect money to fight a cause that was not our fault, through no fault of our own.