PRESS RELEASE Sister of Rosaleen O Kane issues Request for Fresh Inquest to Attorney General for Northern Ireland on 45th Anniversary of Death Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates & Mike Ritchie of Relatives for Justice 24th September 2021 Lawyers for Kathleen Graham, sister of Rosaleen O Kane, who was murdered in her flat in…
2 June 2021 LEGACY INQUEST REVIEW Press Release The Presiding Coroner, Mr Justice McFarland, today issued this statement following his review of legacy related inquests. He has identified a number of inquests which will be progressed by the Legacy Inquest Unit in Year 2 of the Lord Chief Justice’s Five Year Plan: “As Presiding Coroner,…
PRESS RELEASE Attorney General for Northern Ireland Directs Fresh Inquest into the fatal shootings of the New Lodge 6 Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates 12th February 2021 Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates, Belfast welcome the decision by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Brenda King, issued today directing fresh inquests into the fatal…
PRESS RELEASE Second Plaintiff Alleging Waterboarding by British Army in Blackmountain Barracks, Belfast in 1972 Issues Proceedings in Belfast High Court Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates 26th January 2021 A second civil action in the High Court in Belfast involving allegations of torture, including waterboarding, by the British army at Blackmountain Barracks in 1972…
RELATIVE OF JOHN CONWAY RECEIVES COMPENSATION FROM MOD FOR SHOOTING ON 15TH APRIL 1972 IN BALLYMURPHY The next of kin of a man who was shot with his brother in Ballymurphy on the morning of the 15th April 1972 by an undercover army unit, has received compensation for the shooting incident which occurred over 48…
Torture Allegation Case involving Water Boarding listed for Trial in Northern Ireland for June 2021 A civil action involving allegations of torture including waterboarding, hooding and threats to kill at gunpoint, has been listed for trial in the High Court in Belfast for a 1 to 2 week hearing on the 1st June 2021. The…
PRESIDING CORONER FOR NORTHERN IRELAND LEGACY INQUESTS JUNE 2020 STATEMENT This statement updates the position as regards legacy inquests in light of Covid 19. It is my last statement as Presiding Coroner as Mr Justice Huddleston now assumes the role. At the time of my last statement in April 2020, the courts were only…
STATEMENT OF PRESIDING CORONER FOR NORTHERN IRELAND LEGACY INQUESTS ISSUED 29TH APRIL 2020 STATEMENT In my November 2019 statement, I indicated that I would review all the pending legacy inquests in April 2020 and that I hoped to be in a position to announce those inquests which would be listed for hearing during Year 2…
The family of Thomas Aquinas Burns have been granted leave by the High Court in Belfast to challenge the original 1973 inquest verdict of “misadventure”. Thomas Burns was shot by a British soldier as he left the Glenpark Social Club in North Belfast on the 12th July 1972. He died from the gunshot the following…
Patricia Coyle, acting on behalf of client Liam Holden, today welcomed the judgement in the case of the Hooded Men delivered by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal on Friday 20th September 2019. Instructed by her client she stated; “My client was the victim of water boarding carried out by the British army in October…
