At the High Court, Mr Justice Girvan refused commissioner Nigel Williams leave to apply for a review over whether the Northern Ireland Office had consulted children effectively enough on ASBOs. Williams has now lodged a complaint against the introduction of the orders with the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.
In court, the commissioner's lawyer argued that if a young person was named and shamed by the imposition of an ASBO, they may become victims of paramilitary justice.
But Girvan said: "There can be no support for a proposition that in some way the commissioner's view should have carried the day or that the minister was bound to accord them any greater weight than he considered they were entitled to."
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