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UK: Immunity Certificates

01 March 1993

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Michael Mates, the Minister responsible for security in Northern Ireland, has refused to reveal the number of Public Interest Immunity Certificates which have been issued for court or inquest proceedings. A recent parliamentary question asked for the numbers of certificates issued since 1972 but this drew the terse response that there is no central record. CAJ record two certificates with respect to inquests. A third was recently issued to permit several SAS men not to appear at an inquest (in March) and for three others to give evidence from behind a screen. The inquest was into the deaths of three Tyrone IRA men ambushed by the SAS in August 1988, just eleven days after the IRA killed 8 soldiers and injured 27 others by bombing a bus which was bringing the soldiers from Aldergrove airport. The inquest jury was unable to decide whether the SAS or IRA men had fired first.

See Committee on the Administration of Justice Inquests and Disputed Killings in Northern Ireland Belfast: CAJ 1992; Hansard written answer 30.11.92.

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