Jordan’s (Hugh) Application and in the matter of a decision taken by the Coroner of Northern Ireland
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Deeny J |
| Neutral Citation | [2012] NIQB 64 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 26 September 2012 |
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Neutral citation No: [2012] NIQB 64 Ref:
DEE8591
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered: 26/9/12
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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2012/97455/01
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (CROWN SIDE)
Jordan’s (Hugh) Application [2012] NIQB 64
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IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY HUGH JORDAN FOR LEAVE TO
APPLY FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW
AND IN THE MATTER OF A DECISION TAKEN BY THE CORONER FOR
NORTHERN IRELAND
(DISCLOSURE OF STALKER/SAMPSON REPORT)
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DEENY J
[1] This is an application brought by Hugh Jordan, father and next of kin of
Patrick Pearse Jordan. In it his legal representatives seek to quash a decision of the
Coroner refusing disclosure of the Stalker/Sampson narrative and analysis reports
and the transcript of the evidence given by Officer M at the trial of
Martin McCauley. In fact the latter document has been given to the next of kin, as
soon as the Coroner received it I was told, but after proceedings were issued.
[2] The quite complex chronology leading up to this application is set out in the
first affidavit of Fearghal Shiels, solicitor to the next of kin, of 4 September 2012. It
will be recalled that the inquest is into the death of Mr Jordan’s son who was shot
dead by Sergeant A of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on 25 November 1992. The
inquest is currently due to start on Monday 24 September 2012 with the swearing in
of a jury. Mr Shiels advised that in or about May 2009 the Coroner’s Service became
aware that material which was held in the Stevens’ database relating to the earlier
inquiries by Deputy Chief Constable Stalker and Chief Constable Sampson, into the
fatal incidents of November and December 1982, potentially contained material
relevant to the Pearse Jordan Inquest and other historic inquests. There followed a
later notification of this to the next of kin and some controversy about the difficulty
or otherwise in searching this database for relevant matters. Suffice it to say that the
next of kin ultimately became aware that the Officers A, M and V in the Jordan
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