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Covid-19: Court challenge to child sport ban passes first stage
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A court challenge to the ban on children playing sport outdoors due to Covid-19 has cleared the first hurdle after the Department of Health (DoH) decided not contest the application.
A judicial review is now scheduled to take place on 18 March.
The case, brought on behalf of an individual child, argues the ban is harming children s physical and mental health.
Stephen Atherton, the layer acting on behalf of that child, said that his client s life had been reduced to the size of a screen .
He told the High Court in Belfast: This impetus comes against a backdrop of the Mental Health Champion for Northern Ireland, Professor Siobhan O Neill, and other child health experts declaring publicly that the pandemic is having a devastating effect on children and child welfare is now a national emergency. ....

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