BELFAST (Reuters) -Britain and Ireland will jointly announce a new framework on Friday to address the legacy of decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and replace a controversial British law that offered amnesties to ex-soldiers and militants.

The agreement will fulfil a pledge by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to repeal the previous Conservative government’s Legacy Act, a section of which offered immunity from prosecution for those who cooperate with a new investigative body – a provision that was ruled incompatible with human rights law.

The law halted inquests into cases from the three decades of conflict between Irish nationalist militants seeking a united Ireland, pro-British “loyalist” paramilitaries and the British military.

It was opposed by victims’ families, all politi

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