Reply To: Attack on Abortion Law
“By a narrow majority of four to three, justices at the UK’s highest court said it had no jurisdiction to consider the latest legal challenge because there was no actual or potential victim of an unlawful act involved in the case.”
It does seem to be a valid flaw in the presentation of the case. It was also a devolved matter for the NI administration to sort out, so without an actual victim they could have provoked a constitutional crisis.
A majority of judges, however, went on to add that Northern Ireland’s abortion law was incompatible with the right to respect for private and family life as guaranteed by the European convention on human rights.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/supreme-court-dismisses-bid-to-overturn-northern-ireland-abortion-laws
And this should cause the devolved administration to have another look at its law in this regards. Whether it does or does not do so, is another matter.