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Is this the end of the road for opposition to the UK government’s latest plans for legacy truth recovery?

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The UK Supreme Court’s ruling that the rights of victims and their families have not been diminished by the functions of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) all but guarantees the final passage of the UK government’s replacement Legacy Act. But it does little to satisfy its critics. The Supreme Court was rejecting the Windsor Framework as the immediate cause of diminution as found by the NI courts, leaving open the possibility of...