Troubles legacy: Victims’ relatives want legacy bill court ruling By Julian O’Neill BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent 30th June 2022 Relatives of two Troubles victims have lodged a supreme court petition seeking a ruling on the legality of the government’s legacy proposals. They lost a case in Belfast earlier this year on the basis…
30 June 2022 Statement on the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) The Law Society of Northern Ireland notes with concern the contents of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and has written to the Joint Committee on Human Rights to formally lodge our concerns around the proposals’ non-compliance with the European Convention on Human…
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED 30TH JUNE 2022 HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATE PATRICIA BURNS & DANIEL MCCREADY LODGE PETITION TO SUPREME COURT, LONDON TO CHALLENGE LEGACY PROPOSALS COURT DIRECTS SECRETARY OF STATE RESPONSE BY 1ST JULY 2022 A legal challenge to the legacy proposals currently being debated by the Westminster government was lodged with the…
Young men were subjected to coercion and oppression before “confessing” to terrorist crimes Published Date: 10.06.2022 A Police Ombudsman investigation has concluded that four young men arrested in Derry/Londonderry in 1979 were treated unfairly and made ‘confessional’1 statements which were not voluntary according to the standards of the time. PDF: Full public statement Operation-Farrier-Public-Statement.pdf The men…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES PATRICIA BURNS & DANIEL MCCREADY LODGE APPLICATION TO NI COURT OF APPEAL TO PETITIION SUPREME COURT ON LEGACY PROPOSALS CHALLENGE 9th MAY 2022 Patricia Burns and Daniel McCready, relatives of two victims of the Troubles, lodged an application to the NI Court of Appeal on Friday 6th…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES NI COURT OF APPEAL DELIVERS JUDGEMENT IN LEGACY PROPOSALS CHALLENGE 13th APRIL 2022 Patricia Burns and Daniel McCready, relatives of two victims of the Troubles, are now considering the judgement from the NI Court of Appeal delivered by Lady Chief Justice Keegan yesterday 12th April 2022 on…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES LEGACY INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF PATRICK DUFFY ON 24TH NOVEMBER 1978 FIXED FOR HEARING IN 2023 5th APRIL 2022 The Presiding Coroner in Belfast, Mr Justice Humphries confirmed on the 22nd of March 2022 that the fresh inquest into the shooting of Mr Patrick Duffy by…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES INQUEST INTO DEATH OF MASTER PATRICK CRAWFORD (15) ON 10TH AUGUST 1975 TO OPEN AT LAGANSIDE COURTHOUSE BELFAST ON MONDAY 21ST MARCH 2022 16th MARCH 2022 The inquest into the death of Master Patrick Crawford, shot dead in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital on the…
PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES NI HIGH COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL ON REFUSAL TO GRANT INQUEST INTO FATAL SHOOTING OF THOMAS BURNS BY ARMY ON 12TH JULY 1972 14th MARCH 2022 The family of Thomas Aquinas Burns have been granted leave by the High Court in Belfast to challenge…
PRESS RELEASE Sister of Rosaleen O Kane lodges Judicial Review Challenge to Belfast High Court for failure of state agencies to investigate murder Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates 4th March 2022 Lawyers for Kathleen Graham, sister of Rosaleen O Kane, who was murdered in her flat in North Belfast on the 17th of September…