ATTEMPTS are being made to resume up to 20 lawsuits against a west Belfast man who denies being Britain's former top spy inside the IRA.
Actions against Freddie Scappaticci have been on hold while a police investigation into the activities of the agent codenamed Stakeknife continues.
Bedfordshire Chief Constable Jon Boutcher is heading the probe into dozens of murders linked to the spy.
Lawyers for one alleged victim claimed in the High Court that her right to a fair trial was being breached by the uncertainty over the civil litigation.
Margaret Keeley is suing Scappaticci, the Ministry of Defence and PSNI.
Her former husband is Peter Keeley, an ex-MI5 agent who uses the pseudonym Kevin Fulton. She alleges she was wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned at Castlereagh police station in 1994 following an IRA attempt to murder a senior detective in Belfast.
Mrs Keeley was released without charge, but claims she was then taken with Fulton to a flat in the New Lodge area of north Belfast and questioned by an IRA team. Scappaticci was one of the men, she alleged.
Mr Boutcher is expected to submit files to Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions sometime this year.
However, Mrs Keeley's legal representatives argued that her case should be progressed.
