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Who? Matthew Jury, managing partner, McCue & Partners. Why is he in the news? Represents Dennis Hutchings, 80, one of several British Army veterans facing trial on charges relating to events during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hutchings is seeking to go straight to the European Court of Human Rights to end what are alleged to be discriminatory prosecutions of Northern Ireland veterans. Thoughts on the case: ‘Veterans who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are up to 54x more likely to be prosecuted than Republican paramilitaries for offences pre-dating the 1998 Belfast Agreement. Anyone who’s committed a crime, soldier or otherwise, should face prosecution. But not by a discriminatory system. That’s a terrible injustice to inflict on anyone, let alone those who served to protect our country’s safety and security. To compound the discrimination, legislation has now been passed that protects veterans who served overseas, but not in Northern Ireland, ....
Compensation order for IRA suspect A suspected IRA member blamed for the Hyde Park bombing in 1982 has been ordered to pay more than £700,000 in damages to the daughter of one of the soldiers killed in the operation. Although John Downey was never convicted of the attack, Sarah Jane Young took legal action against him “for vindicatory purposes”, The Times reports. She said she has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, nightmares and flashbacks since the attack, which killed four soldiers at Hyde Park and seven in Regent’s Park. ....
By Press Association 2021 IRA Hyde Park bombing An award of “substantial damages” to “mark society’s condemnation” of the Hyde Park bombing can only be made if either Parliament or the Supreme Court allows it, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Martin Spencer was asked at a 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 been 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”. ....
The family of one of the four soldiers killed in the Hyde Park bombing in July 1982 has been awarded £715,000 in damages. The ruling followed a civil case brought against Donegal man John Downey, who a High Court judge ruled last year was an active participant in the bombing. The court awarded the sum in the case of Sarah Jane Young, daughter of L/Cpl Jeffrey Young. ....