Legal challenge to legacy Act to be heard over five days in November

From left: Grainne Teggart, deputy director of Amnesty International in Northern Ireland; Martina Dillon, wife of Seamus Dillon; Donna, Lynda, and Isobel McManus, daughters of James McManus; and Gavin Booth of Phoenix Law with Peter McCarthy outside the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast (Liam McBurney/PA)

A legal challenge to the UK government’s new laws to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles will be heard over five days in November, a High Court judge has directed.

Delivering his case management directions, Mr Justice Colton said the court has now received 20 applications for judicial review from Troubles victims challenging various aspects of the legislation.