Since 2006 he has held the post of President of The Academy of Experts On 29 January 1998 , Lord Saville of Newdigate was appointed to chair the second Bloody Sunday Inquiry , a public inquiry commissioned by Prime Minister Tony Blair into Bloody Sunday , an incident in 1972 in Derry , Northern Ireland , when twenty-seven people were shot by members of the 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment , resulting in fourteen deaths . The previous inquiry , the Widgery Tribunal , had been described by nationalists as a whitewash . Other members of the panel were Sir Edward Somers , former judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand , and William Lloyd Hoyt , former Chief Justice of New Brunswick
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate