Troubles legacy body can work without immunity provision, head of investigation says
A NEW body set up by the British government to investigate Northern Ireland’s Troubles deaths has the powers to carry out effective investigations without the provision for conditional immunity for offenders, its head has said.
Northern Ireland’s former lord chief justice Sir Declan Morgan leads the new Independent Commission for Reconciliation & Information Recovery (ICRIR).
Sir Declan has also insisted that the British government cannot veto or prevent any reports delivered by the commission.
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