The former Sinn Féin leader claims two 1975 convictions relating to his attempts to escape from the Maze Prison during the early 1970s are unsafe because his detention was not "personally considered" by a senior government minister.
A panel of five Supreme Court justices - led by the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord Kerr - are due to deliver their ruling on Mr Adams' appeal remotely this morning. He said a legal opinion requested by Northern Ireland prosecutors before Mr Adams' trial concluded that an ICO had to be personally considered by the secretary of state to be valid.
Tony McGleenan QC, representing the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, argued that the minister of state who signed the ICO "had the power to do so".Mr McGleenan added: "It would have been impractical or even impossible for the secretary of state to give personal consideration to every request for the making of an ICO."
In 2018, the Court of Appeal in Belfast heard that, on Christmas Eve 1973, Mr Adams was among four detainees caught attempting to break out of the Maze.
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