The head of a legacy body has conceded it does not have the same array of powers that a public inquiry would to examine the murder of GAA official Sean Brown.
The Irish Government is among those who have backed his family’s long campaign for such an investigation.
Earlier this month, the Court of Appeal in Belfast affirmed a previous court ruling, compelling the UK government to hold a public inquiry into his killing.
Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.
Mr Brown, 61, then chairman of Wolfe Tones GAA Club in the Co Derry town of Bellaghy, was ambushed, kidnapped and murdered by loyalist paramilitaries as he…