Judgment due in Troubles Legacy Act appeal case

Judgment will be delivered later in a legal appeal challenging the independence of a new body established to reinvestigate Troubles murders.

The appeal was mounted by several bereaved victims after a Belfast High Court judge ruled that the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) was both independent and capable of conducting human rights-compliant investigations.

The High Court in Belfast backed the independence of the commission in a judicial review case taken against the last UK government’s contentious legacy laws.

Martina Dillon, whose husband Seamus Dillon was murdered in 1997, took the lead case in the appeal (Liam McBurney/PA)

Another appeal against a different element of the same February judgment – mounted by the Government – seeks to clarify the legal implications of a commitment contained within the post-Brexit Windsor Framework.

The framework commits to protect the human rights entitlements provided for in the Good Friday peace…