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"en.20050127.9.4-074"2
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"Mr President, for 16 years now the family of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane has campaigned for a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his murder. Clear evidence has emerged that the police, the British army and intelligence services all colluded in his murder. Former Canadian Supreme Court judge Peter Cory recommended a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Mr Finucane’s murder and identified the basic requirements for a public enquiry.
One of these was that the tribunal should have full power to subpoena witnesses and documents, together with all the powers usually exercised by a commissioner in a public enquiry. However, the British Government has recently published a draft inquiries bill. This bill is a wholesale departure from both Irish and British Government agreements and the Cory recommendations. It gives a British Government minister the power to determine whether an inquiry sits in private and what material is withheld. These provisions attack the very independence essential to any inquiry. The British Government is continuing to hide the truth of Mr Finucane’s murder for its own political reasons. The European Parliament must make clear to the British Government that in order to comply with Article 2, any tribunal must as a minimum have the characteristics identified by Judge Cory.
Today I raise this matter and put the British Government on notice that it cannot hide the truth from the Finucane family or the European Parliament for much longer."@en1
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