 With John Hume and Ivan Cooper, Hugh Logue was arrested by the British Army during a peaceful demonstration in Londonderry in August 1971.Their conviction was ultimately overturned by the Law Lords (R(Hume) v Londonderry Justices (972,N.I.91) requiring the then British Government to introduce retrospective legislation to render legal previous British Army actions in Northern Ireland.The Northern Ireland State Papers of 1980 show that together with John Hume and Austin Currie he played a key role in presenting the SDLP'S 'Three Strands' approach to the Thatcher Government's Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins in April 1980 ("Irish Times", 30 December 2010).