Conducting a National Inquiry into Systemic Patterns of Human Rights Violation KEY POINTS: CHAPTER 10 • Some information required by the inquiry will already exist. It should be identified and obtained. • Other information will need to be sought through research. • Information will also be provided by those with particular areas of expertise in relation to the human rights situation being investigated, orally or in written or documentary form, during the public hearings. • Part of the preparatory work in conducting the inquiry is to identify those who can provide evidence and then invite and encourage them to do so. • The inquiry should establish early in its life an information management system that enables it to categorise, catalogue, store, secure and retrieve information easily and appropriately. 46