the security service to provide documents, then available to the HIA. On 17 February 2015 the High Court in Northern Ireland listed a full judicial review into the decision to keep Kincora out of the wider inquiry, which was heard in the first week of June 2015. On 20 January 2017, the HIA chairman Sir Anthony Hart dismissed claims that MI5 or any other British government agency had any role in covering up the reports of sex abuse which had occurred at Kincora and instead placed the blame on the poor investigating and reporting by the local police. In October 2022, former resident Arthur Smyth, issued a writ against the Department of Health, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Business Services Organisation. References Blackmail Child sexual abuse in Northern Ireland MI5 Political scandals in Northern Ireland Sexual abuse cover-ups Incidents of violence against boys Religious controversies in Ireland The Troubles (Northern Ireland) Sex gangs Violence against men in the United Kingdom