MR BIZOS COMMITTEE ON APPLICATION
Mr Chairman, our learned friend made a preliminary statement and we would ask for leave to very briefly state in broad terms the basis of our opposition so that the issues before you may be clarified in order to weigh up the evidence as you hear it, having regard to what we are going to submit.
	We are going to oppose these applications on behalf of the family on two main grounds.  
	Firstly, that in the detailed statements made for the benefit of the Committee, where the new versions appears, which has been summarised by our learned friend;  there is no full disclosure of the facts and that the new versions, even though substantially similar to that given at the inquest in 1977, has merely been modified in order to try and explain away some of the concrete evidence which did not fit with the false version that was put up under oath during the course of the inquest in 1977.
	Secondly, that there is recitation of what was their political 
objective, is not the sort of objective that is envisaged in the Act and to summarise our position briefly, that torturing helpless detainees held under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act for the purposes of extracting information from them;  either false or true to the point that they finish up dead is not a political objective that any civilised society can tolerate.
	There will be refinements to these main submissions, but those in the main are the grounds upon which we oppose this application.