Victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA violence are to be invited to give evidence to an inquiry by a Westminster committee looking into the possibility of compensation.
The inquiry by the cross-party House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is expected to last about two weeks in September and is likely also to call figures from the UK Government.
Libya has already provided compensation in relation to the Lockerbie bombing, and some victims of Northern Ireland's Troubles argue they too should receive financial packages from the north African state because its former ruler Muammar Gaddafi supplied large amounts of weaponry, including the explosive Semtex, to the IRA.
It has been suggested that compensation could be obtained from frozen assets belonging to the dictator, who was ousted and killed in 2011, and his family.
Jason McCue, senior partner of victims' lawyers McCue & Partners said: "Three successive UK Prime Ministers have failed to resolve this for the victim claimants."
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