Reporting of a failed challenge to legality of the NI Assembly designation system for "others" as being an ECHR breach. A key case; it fleshes out that the courts aren't here to radically alter NI's 1998 system. If it's broke, legal action won't fix it: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Scoffield J's judgment in McCord's challenge to "Other" designations has been published. Nothing here vindicates, much less celebrates, the current Assembly designation system, it recognises that it isn't a breach of ECHR rights given wide Margin of Appreciation: www.judiciaryni.uk/files/judici...

Interesting to see the margin of appreciation get a run out in this context.