A UK Supreme Court challenge to the Northern Ireland Protocol post-Brexit trading arrangements has been unanimously dismissed.
A UK SUPREME COURT challenge to the Northern Ireland Protocol post-Brexit trading arrangements has been unanimously dismissed.The legality of the contentious trading arrangements was challenged by a collective of unionists and Brexiteers.
“The Government must consider this judgment, their own arguments to the court and take the steps necessary to replace the protocol with arrangements that unionists can support. The protocol represents an existential threat to the future of Northern Ireland’s place within the Union. The longer the protocol remains, the more it will harm the Union itself.
Becoming effective in 2021, the arrangements instead shifted customs and regulatory checks to the Irish Sea and created new red tape on the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with trade in the region remaining subject to certain EU Single Market rules. The Northern Ireland Act, which gave effect to the historic Good Friday peace agreement, guarantees that the constitutional status of the region can only be changed with the consent of its citizens via referendum.
In 2021, Belfast High Court judge Mr Justice Colton dismissed a judicial review challenge against the lawfulness of the protocol on all grounds.
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