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While the Northern Ireland Legacy Act's immunity provisions are incompatible with the ECHR, the Act's ICRIR is capable of being compliant. Justice Adrian Colton delivered his judgment at the Belfast High Court on February 28, less than six months after the controversial Act received royal assent.