Attorney General John Larkin QC A date has been fixed for the pro-life organisation’s challenge to the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021 which empower NI Secretary Brandon Lewis to direct Stormont ministers to implement a “fully-funded abortion service” over the heads of Stormont MLAs.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) announced the challenge, which they are funding, to the “Westminster power-grab will be heard June 29.
In a June 2 statement, they said they will be challenging both the “validity and lawfulness” of the Westminster proposals and are seeking a declaration from the High Court that the regulations are “of no force or effect”.
The pro-life campaigners will be represented in court by the “formidable” former Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin QC, “who is considered to be the leading authority on the legal and constitutional issues relating to the devolution settlement”, SPUC said in the statement.