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Please read section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998, re declarations of incompatibility, which refer a matter back to the legislature.

Leigh Day got the best available outcome for their clients, which has advanced their cause. So 'well done'. And they only lost by 4/3 of the Justices' decisions on the standing point, for what importance that had.

A new abortion law for NI was never going to be written by a committee of judges. The judges have endorsed that it should be made to comply with the ECHR.