Some of Northern Ireland’s most high-profile murders are set to feature in a potentially landmark bid to have convictions quashed.
Appeal judges will examine at least five cases in September based on a Supreme Court ruling on the interpretation of joint enterprise.
Those mounting renewed challenges include one of the men jailed for the fatal knife attack on north Belfast schoolboy Thomas Devlin, and a man imprisoned over the killing of Ballymena teenager Michael McIlveen.
A similar legal attempt is being mounted by a man convicted of murdering hospital porter David Hamilton, who was bludgeoned to death in his east Belfast flat.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan confirmed that two days have been set aside to hear all arguments.
Defence lawyers want each of the cases re-examined following a new finding on a law that allowed people to be convicted of murder even if they did not inflict the fatal blow.
In February the Supreme Court held that joint enterprise has been wrongly applied for more than 30 years.
The ruling, reached in the case of Ameen Jogee for the murder of former Leicestershire policeman Paul Fyfe in 2011, could pave the way for hundreds of appeals.
One of those seeking to rely on the verdict is Nigel Brown, who is serving a minimum 20-year prison sentence for killing Thomas Devlin in August 2005.