Government subverted law by refusing Finucane inquiry, court told

Lawyer for widow says there has been no effective scrutiny of Belfast solicitor’s murderThe government has “subverted the rule of law and obstructed justice” by refusing to hold an inquiry into the 1989 murder of the Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane, the supreme court has heard.Finucane, who represented a number of high-profile republicans, was shot dead in front of his family by loyalist gunmen who forced their way into his Belfast home in an attack found to have involved st