No legal compunction on Stormont parliament to change law despite province’s near-total ban ruled incompatible with Human Rights ActA tall court judge has declined to insist that politicians end Northern Ireland’s near-total ban on abortion, despite ruling it was incompatible with the UK’s 1998 Human Rights Act.
Mr Justice Horner’s judgment on Wednesday morning instead do the onus on the Northern Ireland assembly to take on board his decision – but there is no legal compunction on the politicians at the Stormont parliament to change the law.
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Source: theguardian.com