History. No count from the five: no challenge was lodged before the first named date in any of them, so none could end either way.
Hunch. By 5 November no court hearing date had been made public, and in earlier moves like this no judge ordered a health body to delay moving births.
The court market resolves on the Southern Trust's Maternity Updates page, then on Northern Ireland court decisions at judiciaryni.uk: YES if by the end of 23 November 2026 the High Court in Belfast or a higher Northern Ireland court orders the trust not to move births from Daisy Hill or to delay the move, and NO if the court refuses to hear the case, no hearing takes place, a hearing is put off without an order, or the trust delays the move itself, including by a promise to the court. BBC News NI confirms the result, with The Irish News and then the Belfast Telegraph as backup.
We looked for cases where a UK health body planned to move births away from one of its hospitals because it could not hire enough doctors, and named a date at least a week ahead. We found five since 2013, in England, Scotland and Wales. In four the move went ahead with no new date. Once the plan was dropped.