The family of murdered Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane, have met with the DUP leader, Ian Paisley, for the first time since Mr Finucane was killed in 1989.
The meeting was part of the Finucane family's campaign for a full independent inquiry into the killing.
The family have rejected the probe under the terms of the new Inquiries Act, which allows a government minister to withhold information from the public on grounds of national security.
They claim such an inquiry would fail to establish the full facts behind the murder of Mr Finucane by loyalist paramilitaries at his family home.
Emerging from the meeting, Mrs Finucane refused to elaborate on how much progress they had made with the DUP leader, preferring instead to say that they had enjoyed a good meeting which was open and they had found some common ground with the DUP.
The DUP refused to comment publicly or through a statement following the meeting. There are no immediate plans for a further meeting but both sides are to remain in touch.
It comes days after the family pledged to take their fight for the truth about the killing to Dublin.
Talks with the Northern Secretary, Peter Hain, led the Finucanes to claim that the British government wanted to cloak the tribunal in secrecy.
