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12/02/2002
Bloody Sunday families to challenge police screening
A Belfast High Court judge has allowed the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday leave to challenge a ruling that police officers should give evidence from behind screens.
Mr Justice Kerr gave the families leave to seek a judicial review of the decision made last week by the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville in Londonderry.
The inquiry granted 19 police officers permission to be shielded from public view when they give evidence because of fears that they could be identified by republican paramilitaries.
However, the families' lawyers challenged the ruling, arguing that the move by the former Royal Ulster Constabulary officers could act as a precedent to be followed later by British soldiers.
They also argued that in 30 years of the Northern Ireland Troubles no police officer had been attacked who had been involved and named in a controversial case involving shootings by the security forces.
The Saville Inquiry in Londonderry's Guildhall was suspended on Tuesday, pending the outcome of the judicial review at Belfast High Court.
(AMcE)
Mr Justice Kerr gave the families leave to seek a judicial review of the decision made last week by the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville in Londonderry.
The inquiry granted 19 police officers permission to be shielded from public view when they give evidence because of fears that they could be identified by republican paramilitaries.
However, the families' lawyers challenged the ruling, arguing that the move by the former Royal Ulster Constabulary officers could act as a precedent to be followed later by British soldiers.
They also argued that in 30 years of the Northern Ireland Troubles no police officer had been attacked who had been involved and named in a controversial case involving shootings by the security forces.
The Saville Inquiry in Londonderry's Guildhall was suspended on Tuesday, pending the outcome of the judicial review at Belfast High Court.
(AMcE)
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