Judges block bid to hold MI5 to account over Arena bombing
Manchester Evening News|November 23, 2024
ANGER AS FAMILIES TOLD LEGAL ACTION HAS BEEN BROUGHT 'TOO LATE'
PAUL BRITTON
Judges block bid to hold MI5 to account over Arena bombing

MORE than 300 people affected by the Manchester Arena bombing cannot continue their legal action against MI5, judges at a specialist tribunal have ruled.

Survivors and people bereaved by the 2017 terror attack brought a case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) against the security services, claiming at a hearing earlier this month that the failure to take 'appropriate measures' to prevent the atrocity infringed their human rights.

But in a ruling yesterday, Lord Justice Singh and Mrs Justice Farbey said the cases could not proceed as they were brought too late.

Lord Justice Singh said: "We are particularly conscious of the importance of the rights concerned... We are also conscious of the horrendous impact of the atrocity on the claimants and their families.

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