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Press Notice 008

Applications for publicly funded legal assistance as a witness at the full hearings of the Robert Hamill Inquiry
12th December 2006

The Robert Hamill Inquiry announced today that anyone wishing to apply for publicly funded legal assistance as a witness at the full hearing of the Robert Hamill Inquiry must complete an application form () and send it to the Inquiry by Wednesday 31 January 2007.

The application form and further details are available on the Inquiry's website at www.roberthamillinquiry.org.

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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