7/7 victims launch legal action against govt

Published: August 20, 2007, 2:33 pm

The group argue that the State has failed with its obligation to protect the right to life, citing former Home secretary Charles Clarke's claim that two of the bombers were clean skins', meaning that they were not known to police and intelligence agencies previously, which as a result of the crevice Trial into Pakistani terrorists suspects concluded in April last year, was revealed as untrue. TheLawyer.com Aug 16, 2007 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

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