Schedule 3: Protection for certain rights, safeguards etc in Belfast Agreement Section 78C - Power of Commissions to bring, or intervene in, legal proceedings
This section provides that both the NIHRC and the ECNI can bring judicial proceedings, in respect of an alleged breach (or potential future breach) of Article 2(1) of the Protocol. The NIHRC and ECNI can also intervene in legal proceedings in so far as they relate to an alleged breach (or potential future breach) of Article 2(1) of the Protocol. Subsection (2) clarifies that this does not create a new cause of action.