IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY THE NORTHERN IRELAND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW sub nom IN THE MATTER OF THE LAW ON TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY (2015)
The failure to provide exceptions to the law in Northern Ireland prohibiting abortion in respect of fatal foetal abnormality at any time, and pregnancies due to sexual crime up to the date when a foetus became capable of an existence independent of its mother, was contrary to the ECHR art.8.