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Press Notice 007

Robert Hamill Inquiry to appeal against judgment on applications for anonymity
9th November 2006

A notice of appeal is to be lodged on behalf of the Robert Hamill Inquiry against the judgment of Mr Justice Morgan sitting in the High Court of Northern Ireland on judicial review.

The judgment ruled against the Inquiry’s decision to refuse the applications for anonymity made by a number of serving and former police officers.

Further information about the Inquiry’s progress and timetable will be published on its website at www.roberthamillinquiry.org as soon as it becomes available.

Notes for Editors

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.”

  4. Further information

    Further information is available at the Inquiry’s website at www.roberthamillinquiry.org.

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