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Ministers pressed on whether legal action over Legacy Act ‘helps or hinders’

Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn has questioned whether the Government will be “helped or hindered” by legal action taken in defence of controversial legacy legislation. The Legacy Act received royal assent last autumn despite ...

24 Apr 2024 at 14:32

Northern Ireland

Government to appeal over High Court ruling on Legacy Act

The Government has announced it is to appeal over a ruling by the High Court in Belfast that one of the key elements of the Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy Act is unlawful. Last week, Mr Justice Adrian Colton ruled that the provision for ...

07 Mar 2024 at 12:15

Northern Ireland

Tory MPs press for emergency immigration legislation after NI court ruling

Emergency legislation is needed to assert “beyond doubt” the UK “controls our own borders”, Tory MPs have said, amid claims over EU influence in Northern Ireland. The UK Government has vowed to appeal a Belfast High Court ruling, which ...

14 May 2024 at 15:09

Northern Ireland

Farage ‘hasn’t got the faintest idea’ of consequences of leaving ECHR, says Benn

Nigel Farage “hasn’t the faintest idea of the consequences” of removing the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) from the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said. Mr Benn added that to jeopardise ...

26 Aug 2025 at 19:22

Northern Ireland

Taoiseach concerned ‘to see UK disengaging from the world’

Leo Varadkar has spoken of his concerns that the UK is “disengaging from the world”. The Taoiseach commented on language coming from the Conservative Party conference this week about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, ...

05 Oct 2023 at 15:04

Northern Ireland

Reform could rewrite Good Friday Agreement without nationalist consent – Tice

Reform UK would be willing to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without the support of Northern Ireland’s nationalist parties, Richard Tice has said. Nationalist politicians ...

11 Sept 2025 at 14:52

Northern Ireland

Irish rape victim Hazel Behan takes case to European Court of Human Rights

An Irishwoman who alleged she was raped at knifepoint by the main suspect in the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann is bringing a case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the Portuguese authorities over ...

16 Apr 2025 at 13:00

Northern Ireland

Reform UK’s efforts to walk away from ECHR are ‘reckless’ – Benn

Reform UK’s efforts to walk away from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) are “wrong” and “reckless”, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said. Delivering his speech to the Labour party conference in ...

30 Sept 2025 at 12:51

Northern Ireland

Leaving ECHR over Rwanda scheme ruling would be foolish, says Tory MP

Any move to abandon or ignore the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in response to a Supreme Court ruling over the Government’s Rwanda scheme would be “foolish and rash”, a Conservative MP has said. Sir ...

03 Dec 2023 at 11:09

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