Professor Kieran McEvoy:

Yes. The timeframe is normally four months once the legislation goes live. As Mr. Holder mentioned, there would also be a requirement to exhaust domestic remedies. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission could take a legal challenge, but that would be for it to determine. Once such a challenge was up and running, it would be viable for this State to seek interim relief measures. This is such a compelling and important issue and the stakes are so high in terms of human rights that, if a case taken by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission or an individual victim was up and running, this State could make an interstate challenge and ask for interim relief measures until the case or cases had run their course.