The father of the policewoman accused of leaving her fingerprint at a murder scene has said he hopes an inquiry would ensure the affair was never repeated.
Iain McKie spoke out ahead of an initial hearing for the public inquiry into the Shirley McKie case.
Earlier this year, the Scottish Government announced that Lord Justice Campbell is to chair a public judicial inquiry into the affair. The announcement came after a campaign by the McKies and others, including SNP MSP Alex Neil, for such a hearing.
Mr McKie said: "Shirley and I will do all we can to ensure the inquiry achieves its goals, reveals what happened over the past 11 years and generates recommendations that will help ensure it never happens again."
He added: "I hope the political and legal establishment will be called to account and we can find out why those who had the power to resolve matters failed to do so."
Ms McKie, a former policewoman, from Troon, Ayrshire, was accused of leaving her fingerprint at the Kilmarnock home of murder victim Marion Ross in 1997.
But she challenged the findings of the fingerprint experts working for the Scottish Criminal Record Office and was later cleared of perjury.
And in February 2006 she was given £750,000 in an out-of-court settlement from the then Scottish Executive.
Mr Neil, a Central Scotland MSP, said the inquiry's initial hearing would take place on Monday in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He added: "I welcome the inquiry. I hope it will find out the truth of what happened in the misidentification of the fingerprint."
When Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced in March that Lord Justice Campbell would chair the inquiry he said there was "public concern" about the case.
He said then: "For over a decade the Shirley McKie case has cast a cloud of suspicion and uncertainty not just over the individuals involved but over the criminal justice system."
