Families of Hyde Park bombing victims to challenge High Court ruling
PA
16 December 2020, 3:51 pm
Families of the Hyde Park bombing victims say they will challenge a decision not to award punitive damages to “mark society’s condemnation” of the atrocity.
Mr Justice Martin Spencer was asked at a High Court hearing earlier this month to award “exemplary damages” because relatives of four British soldiers killed in the atrocity have been denied some “measure of justice, and thereby closure” with no-one ever prosecuted, convicted and punished.
In a ruling on Wednesday, the judge said awarding such damages would require an extension of the law which would be “for either Parliament or the higher courts, and probably the Supreme Court”.
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