7/7 Victims Launch Legal Action Against Government
August 30th, 2007Via: The Lawyer:
A group of survivors and relatives of victims of London’s 7 July 2005 bombings are to take legal action against the government to force an inquiry into the events of that day.
The group is being represented on a pro bono basis by London’s Oury Clark Solicitors, a 20-lawyer white collar crime boutique.
The firm released a pre-action protocol letter to the Home Secretary today setting out the legal case for the need to hold an independent inquiry, open to public scrutiny to allow for participation from the bereaved and survivors.
Their letter outlines their intention to pursue a Judicial Review if the Government continues to refuse to grant such an inquiry.
Solicitor advocate and senior partner James Oury said: “There needs to be a forum away from the executive to look at things in an objective way, and find out if there was something that could have been done and how we could have improve those processes in future. The government has said that Britain could face a terrorist threat for a generation, so there is a genuine public interest at stake here.â€
Oury argued that there is continued uncertainty over the events leading up to the attacks on 7 July 2005, and that an independent inquiry was an appropriate way to address this concern.
