The father of the murdered Loyalist paramilitary leader, Billy Wright, has failed in an attempt to gain access to police files on the investigation into the killing.
The High Court in Belfast ruled that David Wright did not have to see the papers at this stage.
Mr Justice Kerr said he should wait until an inquiry into the killing, being carried out by retired Canadian judge, Peter Corry, was completed.
Billy Wright, who led the Loyalist Volunteer Force, was fatally shot inside the Maze Prison by the INLA just after Christmas, 1997.
Mr Justice Kerr told David Wright that none of the inquiries to date into his son's murder had provided satisfactory answers to key questions such as whether there was any evidence of collusion on the part of members of the prison service in Billy Wright's murder.
In his ruling said he was satisfied that an investigation compatible with human rights legislation had not yet taken place.
Such an investigation he said: "would have to address directly such issues as to how the murderers were able to penetrate the forecourt area unobserved, how they were able to obtain the materials to manufacture the weapons used, how they knew Mr Wright would be in the prison van at the time the murder took place and whether there was any evidence of collusion on the part of members of prison staff."
Speaking outside the court, Mr Wright said he was delighted the judge had highlighted the shortcomings into all the circumstances surrounding his son's death.
