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Judicial Communications Office 1 Friday 5 July 2019 Court Of Appeal Delivers Judgment In Glenanne Report Challenge Summary of Judgment The Court of Appeal1 today upheld a decision that the brother of Edward Barnard had a procedural legitimate expectation that an overarching report would be carried...

The families of over 100 people, on both sides of the border in Ireland, murdered by the Ulster Volunteer Force, in collusion with state forces including the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), have welcomed today’s High Court ruling.

Copy of the Order of Mandamus issued by Judge Treacy on 7 November 2017 compelling the Chief Constable to put in place a mechanism to complete the Overarching Report into collusion in over 120+ killings attributable to the Glenanne gang.

Today, 4 January 2016, is the 40th anniversary of the co-ordinated loyalist gun attacks on our family homes that left three members of each of our families dead and a number of others injured including Barney O’Dowd (father and brother of three of the deceased). On this day we remember Joe, Declan...

THE son of a victim of the notorious Glenanne gang has demanded answers as to why the State concealed the fact one of the men convicted of the double attack on an Armagh village 40 years ago was a serving RUC officer.

The only man convicted of a Co Tyrone pub bombing linked to a loyalist unit behind more than 100 murders named alleged accomplices, the High Court has heard. Counsel for the brother of a teenager killed in the St Patrick's Day attack on the Hillcrest Bar 40 years ago argued there is now fresh...

Today (Thurs, 7 May 2015) a supporting legal action begins in the High Court as lawyers acting for the families of 120 people challenge the British government and the PSNI. At the centre of the action is a thematic report into collusion between members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Ulster...

Anne Cadwallader's testimony to Helsinki Commission - the United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Patrick Barnard died in a 1976 bomb attack in Dungannon, Co Tyrone. His brother Eddie is now taking a legal challenge against the PSNI.

The Pat Finucane Centre appeals to everyone on the island of Ireland carefully to consider the implications of its newly-published book which makes clear collusion was systemic in Mid-Ulster and the border region during the 1970s. We believe both communities suffered as collusion merely served to...

Debate with contributions by Mark Durkan MP and Anna Soubry MP on Glenanne Gang

We, the families of Tony, Brian and Fran, as well as survivors Stephen and Des, have waited a very long time, over 36 years in fact, to learn the circumstances surrounding the deaths of our loved ones who were shot down so brutally and so callously in the early hours of a summer morning

Jackson, who is now dead, has become one of the most notorious figures of 'The Troubles' and is sometimes referred to as 'The Jackal' in open source material. There has always been considerable speculation in some quarters that Jackson was either an agent of the security forces, or was tolerated by...

SDLP Newry and Armagh MLA Dominic Bradley has called on Ian Paisley to withdraw a statement made under privilege in the House of Commons in February 1999 in which he falsely accused Eugene Reavey in connection with the Kingsmills Massacre.

NI Assembly Debate on the Reavey family murders and related matters