The action is being taken by Belfast-based law firm KRW over an online opinion piece by the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.

NI law firm takes defamation case against Brandon Lewis

The government plans to offer immunity from prosecutions have sparked opposition from families.

Relatives protest over Troubles legacy proposals during PM’s visit

Dennis Hutchings died after contracting Covid-19 while awaiting trial over a fatal shooting in 1974

Partner of Army veteran in human rights case against British Government

Former RUC detective chief inspector Colville Stewart, who interviewed Mr Holden the day after Mr Anespie died, gave evidence at the trial on Friday.

'Shots which killed man were fired accidentally', ex-soldier told police

Former Grenadier Guardsman David Holden leaving Laganside Courts in Belfast, where he is charged with the unlawful killing of Aidan McAnespie, 18, close to a checkpoint in Co Tyrone in 1988. Picture date: Monday March 28, 2022.
Picture by: Liam McBurney/PA Wire/PA Images
Date taken: 28-Mar-2022

A former soldier told Belfast Crown Court he thought the border checkpoint was under attack on the day Aidan McAnespie was shot dead.

Ex-soldier thought checkpoint under attack before Aidan McAnespie killed'

Mary Hull has also commenced legal action against the Chief Constable and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland over her husband Jim Trainor's murder.

Widow to sue MoD almost 50 years after husband's murder

Legal action finally listed in Finucane case in which NI Secretary of State was accused of trying to "run down the clock."

Finucane widow finally gets date for legal action against UK government

Tributes have been paid to Ben O’Sullivan, a retired detective who survived an IRA gun attack in 1996 that left a fellow officer dead.

Tributes paid to retired Irish detective who survived IRA gun attack

Congressman slams UK's planneddefacto troubles amnesty

A US congressman has slammed the UK Government's proposed amnesty on Troubles-era killings as part of a “massive, ongoing cover-up".

US Congressman denounces UK government over troubles amnesty proposals

Shadow secretary of state Peter Kyle called on the Government to abandon plans to introduce a statute of limitations on Troubles-era prosecutions.

Amnesty plans do not have support to ‘proceed legitimately’ – Labour

The Sinn Fein president has called on the Irish Government to set out how it will respond if London proceeds with the plans.

Dublin must step up opposition to UK’s ban on Troubles prosecutions – McDonald

Colin Davidson invites the Prime Minister and Secretary of State to look into the eyes of those who lost loved ones in his portraits.

Belfast artist calls on the government to abandon their legacy amnesty proposals

Controversial plans to end all prosecutions for Troubles-era incidents were expected to be legislated for this autumn.

Lewis: Deadline for controversial legacy legislation has been missed

The Labour peer urges a rethink by the UK Government over what he branded ‘a blanket amnesty’.

Hain: Troubles prosecutions ban ‘legally dubious and morally corrupt’

It came as the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement visited the area in west Belfast.

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