Legal Aid for Applicants
HIA Inquiry · Report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry · Issued 20 January 2017 · Addressed to: Northern Ireland Executive
Government responseNorthern Ireland Executive: No response yet (Sep 2019)
DeliveryThe Executive Office (Northern Ireland) says completed (Mar 2020)
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
We recommend that applicants should be eligible for legal aid to allow them to obtain legal assistance to make an application for an award.
HIA Inquiry, Report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry · 20 Jan 2017 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Executive Office (Northern Ireland) stated in March 2020 that "free legal advice is available to all applicants to the HIA Redress Board to assist with the application" (The Executive Office (Northern Ireland), Mar 2020). Prior to this, a report laid before Parliament by the department and the Northern Ireland Office in September 2019 recorded that no formal response had been published because the collapse of the Executive in January 2017 meant the recommendations had not yet been put to it (Northern Ireland Executive response, Sep 2019).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.
Government response
●Northern Ireland Executive · No response yet · 4 Sep 2019
No formal government response published. The Inquiry reported on 20 January 2017, the month the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed; the report The Executive Office and the Northern Ireland Office laid before Parliament in September 2019 records that, because of the collapse, the report and its recommendations had not yet been put to the Executive.
Delivery
●The Executive Office (Northern Ireland) says completed · 31 Mar 2020
Free legal advice is available to all applicants to the HIA Redress Board to assist with the application.
From: Opening of Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board
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