A High Court judge in Belfast has allowed families of the Bloody Sunday victims to challenge a ruling that police officers should give evidence to the inquiry from behind screens.
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Lord Saville of Newdigate
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Mr Justice Kerr today gave the families leave to seek a judicial review of the decision last week by Lord Saville's inquiry in Derry.
The inquiry granted 19 police officers permission to be shielded from public view when they give evidence because of fears that they could be identified by paramilitaries.
However, families challenged the ruling, arguing the move by the officers could be a precursor to a similar move by British soldiers.
They also argued that in 30 years of the North's Troubles no police officer had been attacked who had been involved and named in a controversial case involving shootings by the security forces.
The Saville Inquiry in Derry's Guildhall was today suspended, pending the outcome of the judicial review at Belfast High Court.
PA