Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland

✍ Scribed by Dermot P. J. Walsh (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on original research into explosive evidence which had been concealed for twenty-five years, this book offers a devastating critique of the official Widgery Inquiry into the massacre of innocent and unarmed civilians by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. It exposes the Inquiry as a gross denial of justice and the rule of law. Expert analysis of the subordination of law to security policy in Northern Ireland reveals that the Bloody Sunday experience is an integral part of a sustained pattern. Belated prospects for a restoration of justice and the rule of law are found in the Good Friday Peace Agreement and the unprecedented establishment of a second Tribunal of Inquiry into Bloody Sunday.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Bloody Sunday....Pages 1-14
The Road to Bloody Sunday....Pages 15-53
The Widgery Inquiry....Pages 54-84
A Flawed Report....Pages 85-112
The Soldiers’ Statements....Pages 113-156
Lethal Force and the Law....Pages 157-214
Law and Security Policy since Bloody Sunday....Pages 215-282
The Path to Justice....Pages 283-313
Back Matter....Pages 314-349

✦ Subjects

British Politics; Political Science; Law, general