An inquest into the death of a UDR officer during a weapons training exercise in Northern Ireland almost 40 years ago will need more legal work before it can be heard.
The next preliminary hearing into the death of Warrant Officer Bernard Adamson, 30, will be held on 22 March after more time was allowed to consider legal questions.
WO Adamson was fatally wounded when he was hit with a live bullet on the firing range in Co Fermanagh in 1972 during a battlefield simulation which was supposed to involve only blank cartridges.
The father-of-four, from Enniskillen, was shot by 19-year-old Private Duncan Munro McLuckie in an incident treated as a tragic accident.
More than 35 years after an initial inquest returned an open verdict, Mr Adamson's relatives successfully applied to Attorney General Baroness Scotland to initiate a new coroner's probe after raising concerns about the original hearing.
It has since emerged that McLuckie is currently serving a life sentence for murder in Durham's Frankland Prison in connection with a separate killing.
Monday's preliminary hearing in Belfast decided a fresh preparatory session would be necessary on 22 March.
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