EXTRACT FROM IRISH GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASE ISSUED 19TH JANUARY 2024 “New inter-State application brought by Ireland against the United Kingdom The Government of Ireland has lodged a new application with the European Court of Human Rights against the United Kingdom. The case concerns the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, which was signed…
PRESS RELEASE INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF MASTER PATRICK CRAWFORD (15) KILLED ON 10TH AUGUST 1975 AT RVH INQUEST FIXED HEARING FOR 11TH MARCH 2024 CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS/PROSECUTIONS/INQUESTS & LITIGATION RE DEATHS OF CHILDREN IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN EARLY 1970S ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 29TH SEPTEMBER 2023 The inquest into the death…
HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES VICTIMS’ RELATIVES LODGE JUDICIAL REVIEW CHALLENGES TO LEGACY BILL AT BELFAST HIGHT COURT ON 13TH SEPTEMBER 2023 ISSUED 15TH SEPTEMBER 2023 Relatives of 3 victims have lodged judicial review proceedings with the High Court in Belfast this week in advance of the final stage of the NI Troubles (Legacy…
PRESS RELEASE INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF MASTER PATRICK CRAWFORD (15) KILLED ON 10TH AUGUST 1975 AT RVH PRELIMINARY HEARING 22ND JUNE ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 21ST JUNE 2023 A Preliminary Hearing of the inquest into the death of Patrick Crawford (15) shot dead in the grounds of the Royal Victoria…
Neutral Citation No: Judgment: approved by the court for handing down (subject to editorial corrections)* Ref: HUM12178 Delivered: 30/05/2023 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND ___________ KING’S BENCH DIVISION (JUDICIAL REVIEW) ___________ IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY KATHLEEN GRAHAM FOR JUDICIAL…
Judge brands police failures to investigate 1976 murder of Belfast woman Rosaleen O’Kane ‘egregious and inexplicable’ Rosaleen O’Kane, murdered in her north Belfast flat in 1976 Alan Erwin Today at 14:02 Police failures to properly investigate the suspected sectarian murder of a north Belfast woman 47 years ago are “shocking and disgraceful”, the High Court…
Police `unlawfully given up’ pursuing lead on unsolved murder of Rosaleen O’Kane Rosaleen Kane 26 April, 2023 17:25 Counsel for relatives of Rosaleen O’Kane claimed the PSNI has failed in its legal duty to probe information naming three individuals potentially involved in a death described as a “whodunit mystery” Police have unlawfully given up pursuing…
Family of man shot by soldiers in 1978 hope for answers as inquest opens Patrick Duffy was shot dead at a house in Londonderry in 1978 (family handout/PA) Jonathan McCambridge, PA 21 April, 2023 14:13 The inquest is taking place at Londonderry Courthouse (Brian Lawless/PA) The family of a man shot dead by soldiers in…
Fresh ‘shoot-to-kill’ inquest to open in Derry Father-of-six, Patrick Duffy was shot dead by undercover British soldiers. Seamus McKinney 20 April, 2023 11:27 A fresh inquest into the 1978 death of a man who is alleged to be the first ‘shoot-to-kill’ victim of the Troubles is expected to open in Derry on Friday. Leading human…
‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarded by the British army Liam Holden went to prison for 17 years on the basis of a confession he made after being tortured by British soldiers in 1972. Now the government is making it harder for people like him to get justice…
