The Supreme Court will hear the final appeal in the Ashers Bakery cake next April when it sits in Belfast for the first time.
Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court, will be joined by three other judges including the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Kerr. The four judges will hear arguments on whether Ashers Bakery discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation when it refused to fulfil an order for a cake with a slogan supporting same sex marriage. The bakery’s Christian owners do not accept that it breached equality laws by refusing to make the cake.