An agreed date has been set for the hearing of an application for a judicial review of the decision of the Northern Secretary, Dr Mo Mowlam, that the IRA ceasefire is intact.
A judge had been due to sit next Monday in the High Court in Belfast to fix a date, but it has been agreed that the hearing is to start on October 25th.
The case has been brought by Ms Michelle Williamson, whose parents were killed along with seven others in the Shankill bombing in 1993.
She says Sean Kelly, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and is due for early re lease next July, should be kept in jail. Her case is that IRA prisoners should not be allowed to benefit from the early release scheme as the IRA is not maintaining a "complete and unequivocal ceasefire".