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Application for leave to judicially review the Robert Hamill Inquiry Panel’s ruling on applications for anonymity22nd August 2006
A leave application to judicially review the Robert Hamill Inquiry Panel’s ruling on applications for anonymity was today heard in the High Court in Belfast at 10.00am.
The Court decided that leave should be granted and that a substantive hearing should take place on Thursday 31 August 2006.
It is inevitable that the judicial review proceedings will delay the start of the Inquiry’s public hearings that were scheduled to start on 5 September 2006.
As soon as further information about the Inquiry’s timetable becomes available, details will be published on the Inquiry’s website at www.roberthamillinquiry.org
Notes for Editors
- The Panel
The Chairman of the Inquiry is Sir Edwin Jowitt, a retired Justice for the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division. The other panel members are Sir John Evans (former President of the Association of Chief Police Officers and retired Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary) and Reverend Baroness Richardson of Calow (Moderator of he Churches’ Commission for Inter Faith Relations). - The Inquiry
On the 16 November 2004 the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Paul Murphy, announced the terms of reference for the inquiry into the death of Robert Hamill following an incident in Portadown, County Armagh on 27 April 1997. - Terms of Reference
The Terms of Reference are:
“To inquire into the death of Robert Hamill with a view to determining whether any wrongful act or omission by or within the Royal Ulster Constabulary facilitated his death or obstructed the investigation of it, or whether attempts were made to do so; whether any such act or omission was intentional or negligent; whether the investigation of his death was carried out with due diligence; and to make recommendations.” - Further information
Further information is available at the Inquiry’s website at www.roberthamillinquiry.org
