Timeline

Key dates in the inquiry's progress, assembled from its recorded milestones and hearing phases.

Hearing-phase dates are taken from the published hearing days; some earlier milestone dates are approximate where the inquiry has not published an exact date.

Milestones & hearing phases

Milestone Hearing phase Reports & costs Still to come
29 Jan 1998
Inquiry Announced
3 Apr 1998
Inquiry Established
20 Jul 1998 to 21 Jul 1998
Procedural / preliminary hearing
2 sitting days
26 Apr 1999 to 27 Jan 2005
Evidential hearings
442 sitting days
27 Jan 2005
Final witness heard
31 May 2010
Reported costs: £155.6m
NIO Total Expenditure 1997-2010
15 Jun 2010
Final Report Published