Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 2: Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews Section 29: Information
The purpose of offensive weapons homicide reviews is to ensure that review partners consider the circumstances that led to a homicide and identify lessons learnt, opportunities to intervene and inform responses to tackle serious violence and homicide. Conducting the reviews therefore requires the collection and processing of information relevant to the circumstances of the death being reviewed, for example information about the person who died and their circumstances, and information about a person who caused, or is likely to have caused the death and their circumstances.
	Subsection (1) provides that a review partner may request a person to provide information to them, or to any of the other review partners. Subsections (2) to (4) provide that such a request may only be made if it is made for the purpose of enabling or assisting the performance of functions conferred by sections 24 to 28 (including considering whether or not to establish a review) and that the recipient of the request is, due to their functions or activities, considered by the review partner to be likely to have information that would enable or assist the performance of those functions. Other individuals or organisations that may have relevant information could include, but is not limited to, British Transport Police, probation services, schools, universities, colleges, GP practices, hospitals and third-sector organisations.
	Subsections (5) and (6) place a legal requirement on any person receiving a request under this Section to provide the information requested. This requirement may be enforced by the review partner making an application to the Hight Court or the county court for an injunction.
	Subsection (7) provides review partners with a power to share information with another review partner if that information is shared for the purpose of enabling or assisting the performance of functions under sections 24 to 28. This ensures review partners are able to share either information they already hold, or information they receive via a request made under subsection (1) with other review partners for those purposes.