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'Women's rights' group supported by JK Rowling withdraw legal challenge against Belfast festival
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A LEGAL CHALLENGE by a group against the cancellation of an event at the Belfast community arts festival Féile an Phobail has ended.
Womens Rights Network Northern Ireland brought the challenge after the festival pulled an event scheduled to take place in the city on Tuesday of next week.
The festival programme said the event would explore “women’s rights, law and legislative clarity”, including “sex-based rights, single-sex spaces and fairness in women’s sport”.
Womens Rights Network Northern Ireland subsequently announced it was taking legal action against the festival and has rejected claims that it is “transphobic”.
Correction: The original version of this piece stated that the High Court had rejected the group’s legal challenge, but has since been updated.