The ‘gay cake’ case has been dramatically adjourned following a last minute intervention from Northern Ireland’s Attorney General.

Ashers Bakery, owned by the McArthur family, was appealing a ruling after they refused to produce a cake with a “support gay marriage” slogan. They were fined £500 after a Belfast court ruled they had discriminated on the grounds of sexual orientation.

However their appeal was postponed after a late intervention from John Larkin QC, Attorney General in Northern Ireland, which raised a potential conflict between the region’s equality legislation (which is not the same as the 2010 Equalities Act) and European human rights laws.

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