In a further court judgment in the long running saga of the investigations of the murder of solicitor Patrick Finucane, Stevens J, in the High Court of Northern Ireland, has held that the decision of the British Government not to hold an public inquiry that could examine the complicity of state agents and employees in his murder was lawful.
“The killing involved the most conspicuously bad, glaring and flagrant breach of the obligation of the state to protect the life of its citizen and to ensure the rule of law.”
-Stephens J: Finucane’s (Geraldine) Application [2015] NIQB 57