A major review of legacy inquests will begin in September, a coroner has said.
Mrs Justice Keegan will hold preliminary hearings into each case this autumn to establish their states of readiness and consider their sequencing.
Northern Ireland's Justice Department plans to release £55 million over six years to deal with 52 legacy inquests involving 93 deaths.
A Coroner's Service statement said: "The presiding coroner said she is keen to ensure that legacy inquest cases are prepared for hearing expeditiously and that disclosure issues are identified early and, through collaboration and dialogue, that reasonable and proportionate solutions are found."
Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan's plan to clear a backlog involving cases which are decades-old had been delayed by political disagreement over legacy.
Sir Declan requested money from the Stormont Executive to address the backlog but it was blocked by former DUP first minister Arlene Foster.
The fresh review will follow up on work undertaken by Lord Justice Weir in February 2016.
Relatives of people killed during the Troubles have welcomed confirmation of the review.
Mairead Kelly’s brother Paddy was one of eight IRA men shot dead in an SAS ambush in Loughgall, Co Armagh, in May 1987.
Civilian Anthony Hughes was also killed when he and his brother inadvertently drove into the ambush.
“It sounds like a good plan,” said Ms Kelly.
“It’s been a long process but it sounds like within the next five years things will start for all the legacy cases.”
Co Tyrone woman Bernie McKearney, whose parents and husband were shot dead by the UVF in separate sectarian attacks, has also welcomed the development.
Ms McKearney’s parents Charles Fox (63) and his wife Theresa (53) were gunned down in their home near Moy in Co Tyrone by a UVF gang on September 6 1992.
Ms McKearney’s husband Kevin was also shot dead by the UVF along with his uncle Jack McKearney in the Moy in Co Tyrone eight months before her parents.
The killing of all four people forms part of the Mid Ulster series of murders, which campaigners believed are linked.
Collusion is also strongly suspected in some of the killings.
Ms McKearney welcomed the broad approach being adopted by the court.
“I am glad to see she is taking a thematic approach because in our opinion it was the same people using the same weapons,” she said.
“In my case we are waiting 27 years.
“We have been through this system for the past 15 years.
“We are glad Ms Justice Keegan is taking it seriously and we are heartened.”
