Two Stormont ministers will face a court challenge this week over the lawfulness of a failed legal action against the police.
Last summer, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon and Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey launched proceedings against the PSNI over its decision not to take action against a contentious Eleventh Night bonfire in a loyalist area of north Belfast.
The police declined to offer protection to contractors hired by Belfast City Council to remove the Tiger’s Bay bonfire, which was built in proximity to a community interface with the nationalist New Lodge, citing concerns that their intervention could lead to disorder.
