Judge wrong to order public inquiry into murder of GAA official, court told

The family of murdered GAA official Sean Brown with supporters (PA)

A judge was wrong in law to order the British government to hold a public inquiry into the murder of a senior GAA official during the Troubles, a court has heard.

Belfast High Court judge Justice Humphreys “seized the discretion” held by Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn and exercised it himself when he ordered an inquiry into Sean Brown’s death, a government barrister claimed.