Appointment of Orangemen to Parades Commission ruled unlawful

The body which adjudicates on contentious parades in the North is today looking for a new member after the Law Lords declared the appointment by Peter Hain of one of its members was unlawful.

The House of Lords overturned a majority Court of Appeal judgment that the former British government minister was right when he was Northern Ireland Secretary to appoint David Burrows and another Orangeman to the Parades Commission in 2005.