Public Inquiries: Wrong Route on Bloody Sunday
Preamble -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Public Inquiries: Introduction -- 1 -- Concern for Scandals and Disasters -- The Aim of the Public Inquiry -- The New System of Public Inquiries -- 2 -- Early Beginnings: Corruption and Maladministration -- The 1921 Legislation -- Part II: The Principles of Public Inquiries -- 3 -- The Royal Commission on Tribunals of Inquiry 1966 (the Salmon Commission) -- Salmon Letters to the Fore -- Their Demise -- 4 -- The Jurisprudence of Public Inquiries -- Part III: Bloody Sunday -- Second Time Around1998-2010 -- 5 -- The Wrong Turn in 1998: A Final Dose of Inappropriate Legalism -- Introduction -- Causality -- The Scope of Culpability -- Two Inquiries, 40 Years Apart-An Overview in Scope and Cost-the Concept of Memory -- What Next? -- Witnesses -- Legal Limitation on the Power of a Public Inquiry -- Proof of Blameworthiness -- 6 -- The Lapse of Time: Assessment of Evidence1 -- Evidence, Three Decades On: the Reliability of Witnesses -- A Second Bite -- The Memory Process -- Reality-monitoring -- Conclusion -- 7 -- The Unexplained Circumstances -- Introduction -- Legal Representation -- The "Arrest Operation": its Origins -- Public Disorder in Northern Ireland in 1972 -- Arrest Powers of Soldiers -- Legality of the Ban -- Conclusion -- Part IV: The Inquiries Act 2005 -- 8 -- An Analysis of the Act of 2005: An Aspect of Public Administration -- 9 -- The Chairing of Commissions: Horses for Courses -- A Sparing of Judicial Talent -- 10 -- Counsel to the Inquiry, Statutory and Non-statutory -- 11 -- Safeguards for Witnesses -- Scope of the Report -- What Constitutes "Pressing Grounds"? -- Fairness in Reporting -- The Chilcot Inquiry -- 12 -- Chilcot-Maxwellisation-Saville: The Problem of Delay -- 13 -- Model Inquiries: Hillsborough (1989) and Litvinenko (2015) -- Delayed Justice -- The Litvinenko Inquiry