Chapter 11: Conduct public hearings 47 11.1. The essential nature of public hearings 47 11.2. Confidential evidence 48 11.3. Preparing the public hearings 49 11.4. Who should appear before a public hearing? 49 11.5. Hearing victims 51 11.6. Hearing government officials 52 11.7. Witness protection 52 11.8. Structuring the hearings and the witnesses 53 11.9. Recording the evidence 54 11.10. Inquiry powers and public hearings 55 11.11. Who should attend the public hearings? 56 Chapter 12: Develop recommendations 58 12.1. The place of recommendations in the inquiry process 58 12.2. What should recommendations do? 58 12.3. The basis for recommendations 59 12.4. To whom should recommendations be directed? 59 12.5. Drafting recommendations 60 12.6. The number of and priority among recommendations 60 Chapter 13: Prepare the report 63 13.1. The importance of the report 63 13.2. Reporting against objectives 64 13.3. To whom to report 64 13.4. The formal report or reports 65 13.5. The contents of the report 66 13.6. The structure of report 66 13.7. The style of report 67 13.8. Some other matters 67 13.9. Other ways of reporting 68 Chapter 14: Release the report 70 14.1. The release promotes implementation 70 14.2. Before the release 71 14.3. The main release event 71 14.4. After the main release event 72 14.5. International release 73 iii