The High Court of London ruled the Protocol on Northern Ireland accompanying the Brexit agreement to be legal.
London, Thanasis Gavos
The High Court of London ruled the Protocol on Northern Ireland accompanying the Brexit agreement to be legal.
The appeal against the protocol was brought by a group of seven Unionist leaders in Northern Ireland, including former Northern Ireland First Ministers David Tribble and Arlene Foster.
The five Lords unanimously rejected all the claimants’ arguments, including the claim that the protocol’s controls on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland breached the Act of Union 1800 and the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which that they essentially undermine the integrity of the United Kingdom.
Reacting to the verdict, DUP leader Geoffrey Donaldson commented that the issue was “never going to be resolved in the courts”, insisting the protocol still posed an “existential threat to Northern Ireland’s future position within the[UK’s]union )”
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