A public inquiry into the murder of LVF leader Billy Wright in the Maze Prison has begun in Belfast.
The first stage of the inquiry, which will last one week, is concerned solely with the recovery of certain documents.
The Wright family's legal team has been seeking a number of documents from the Maze prison since the murder. It has been reported in the media that some documents have gone missing.
Wright (37) was shot dead by three INLA prisoners in the Maze Prison on December 27th, 1997.
Derek Bachelor QC, senior counsel for the inquiry, said the aims of the week were to ascertain what documents were no longer available from the prison service and also to establish if the destruction of any documents was recorded.
The inquiry will hear evidence from 17 witnesses this week, some of whom will only be identified by a letter of the alphabet. It will then adjourn and resume again in the spring of next year.