A mural dedicated to the murdered solicitor Pat Finucane was unveiled at Beechmount Drive in west Belfast on Sunday afternoon, days ahead of the publication of the de Silva report into his death.

Click here to view full document

Potential cross-examination of David Cameron about the refusal to order a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is being thwarted, the High Court has heard. An affidavit from the Prime Minister's private secretary blocks any chance of questioning him about claims he told the lawyer's widow Geraldine that others around Downing Street would not allow a full independent probe, a judge was told. Lawyers for Mrs Finucane are to seek an order striking out the "hearsay" statement that Mr Cameron denies making the comments. It was also alleged that a sham consultation process was undertaken when the decision not to hold an inquiry had been pre-determined.

Click here to view full document

In November 2010 we entered into negotiations with the NIO on the suggestion of Owen Patterson, in an attempt to resolve the Finucane family’s objection to part of the Inquiries Act 2005. Section 19 of the Act allowed a government minister to overrule decisions by a panel of judges.This was a major change in the law and removed an inquiry’s independence.

Click here to view full document

It was bad enough that innocent Derry citizens were murdered on the streets of the United Kingdom in 1972 by agents of the British state, but at least they finally achieved justice in the Inquiry chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate that reported last year.

Click here to view full document

Senior US politicians have hit out at the refusal of the British Government to order a full public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane.

Click here to view full document

Cameron's coalition are afraid of what an inquiry into Pat Finucane's murder might reveal, says Brian Rowan.

Click here to view full document

One of the UK's leading barristers has condemned the government's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the Pat Finucane murder.

Click here to view full document

THE retired Canadian judge who advised the British Government to hold an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane seven years ago has expressed shock and disappointment at David Cameron’s rejection of the probe.

Click here to view full document

Click here to view full document

The widow of murdered Northern Ireland solicitor Pat Finucane said today she felt "angry" and "insulted" after David Cameron told her he was proposing a barrister-led review of her husband’s case.

Click here to view full document

IN THE Northern Ireland lexicon the word collusion is synonymous with the name of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

Click here to view full document

IT WAS on the verge of resolving one of the most controversial murders of the Troubles and securing the backing of Pat Finucane’s family for an agreed inquiry into the solicitor’s murder – so why did the British government instead send them packing?

Click here to view full document

ONE of Northern Ireland’s most controversial murder cases moves into a critical phase over the next few days with top-level talks which will determine how far the government is prepared to go in exposing its own involvement in the killing.

Click here to view full document

The shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland has pressed the government to open an inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane.

Click here to view full document

The family of human-rights solicitor Pat Finucane are to be told within weeks that a full inquiry into his murder will go ahead.

After years of campaigning by the Belfast man's relatives, the British government has agreed to a potentially explosive public probe.

Click here to view full document

For real reconciliation, we need acknowledgement of British security services' relationship with loyalism during the Troubles.

Click here to view full document

MI5 has said that it is prepared to hand over sensitive files on one of the most high-profile murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles carried out by loyalist gunmen working with members of the British security forces. The offer in the case of the Pat Finucane, the well-known civil rights and defence lawyer murdered in front of his wife and three young children in 1989, is contained in confidential US embassy cables passed to WikiLeaks. Supporters of Finucane welcomed the revelation of the offer as "highly significant" and believe it could pave the way for a fresh inquiry into the killing that would be acceptable to the family.

Click here to view full document

THE British Government has signalled it may avoid holding even a controlled inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, an international conference in honour of the Belfast solicitor at Dublin’s Trinity College was told on Saturday.

Click here to view full document

“EVERYONE knows the Eames/Bradley recommendations are nonsense,” Peter Madden told an audience at St Mary’s College in Belfast last week. The solicitor was speaking at a relaunch of the campaign for an international, independent public inquiry into the killing of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane.

Click here to view full document

The 20th anniversary of the murder of Pat Finucane reminds us that the residue of our unresolved past continues to cast a shadow over our society, his widow, Geraldine, told a conference on his life and legacy in Trinity College at the weekend.

Click here to view full document

Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs - On Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
15th May 2013

Submission to the Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs - On Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations - by Jane Winter, former Director of British Irish Rights Watch
15th May 2013

An application for discovery in Judicial Review proceedings brought by Geraldine Finucane
23rd April 2013