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Jonathan McCambridge

Government wins Supreme Court challenge over disclosure of sensitive material

The ruling was delivered at the Supreme Court in London (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Government has won an appeal which prevents a coroner in Northern Ireland disclosing certain sensitive material at a Troubles inquest.

The Supreme Court has unanimously overturned a decision by coroner Louisa Fee to disclose summaries, or gists, of the evidence in a sensitive security force file related to the murder of a man in west Belfast 30 years ago.

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