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Bloody Sunday Inquiry Report Published
15 June 2010

The Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was published on 15 June 2010 . The Inquiry was set up to investigate the events in Londonderry on 30 January 1972, in which members of the Parachute Regiment opened fire on civilians in the aftermath of a civil rights march. Thirteen people died and many others were injured.

The Inquiry was chaired by Lord Saville and was the longest-running public inquiry in British legal history, having taken 12 years to complete. The Report is contained in ten volumes and addresses in detail the role of politicians, senior Army officers and paramilitaries as well that of the soldiers on the ground.

Since the commencement of the Inquiry in 1998, 8 Members (and former Members) of Chambers were instructed in Bloody Sunday including Cathryn McGahey, who acted as junior counsel to the Inquiry and worked on the Inquiry from 2000 - 2010 and Nicholas Moss, who was instructed throughout the oral hearings as junior counsel for one of the four groups of soldiers as well as representing senior civil servants.

Temple Garden Chambers is a leading Chambers in the field of Public Inquiries and considered by the Legal 500 to be "an excellent set for inquiry work".

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