Colton

Lord Kerr, the former lord chief justice of Northern Ireland, found a flaw in the 1973 detention of Gerry Adams. The NIO should pay only nominal damages to Mr Adams given the destruction caused by the IRA, which was endorsed by SF

Letter: It is time to quash the wayward Supreme Court ruling on Gerry Adams

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar talking to the media outside the Stormont hotel, after holding talks with representatives from Stormont's five political parties to discuss the deadlock over the post-Brexit protocol.

'How much sovereignty will unionism concede for a protocol deal?': Jim Allister

DUP's Edwin Poots at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast after being returned as an MLA for the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Legal bill for Stormont after Poots' decision to halt Irish Sea border checks

Eileen Wilson at the High Court in Belfast with her solicitor Ciaran O’Hare

Legal action on waiting lists rejected by judge

Blurred figures of people with medical uniforms in hospital corridor

Judge dismisses legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s long waiting lists

The court says that safeguards for controversial decisions do not apply to protocol implementation. The constitutional vandalism perpetrated by the Conservative government is a matter of the utmost seriousness

Belfast court ruling shows how the Union is subjugated by the NI Protocol

Larne Port

Poots’ decision to halt border control checks unlawful, High Court rules

The hearing in the UK Supreme Court went barely noticed outside of unionist circles. A key plank of the legal case against the protocol is that you cannot make such constitutional change by implication

Ben Lowry: A unionist government has argued that the Acts of Union is set aside

The ruling was made at the High Court in Belfast on Tuesday

Exclusively Christian RE not lawful, says High Court

Eileen Wilson at her home in Belfast, as she is taking a legal case against Northern Ireland's health authorities after a five-year wait for a diagnosis.

Catastrophic waiting lists are a breach of human rights: Lawyer

Geoffrey Wilson outside the Royal Courts of Justice.

Expelled Alliance Party member Geoffrey Wilson loses legal bid

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis

Government acts to ensure availability of abortion services in Northern Ireland

News Letter editorial

EU will be thrilled if UK is giving up on suspending Northern Ireland Protocol

Slurry

‘Polluting’ slurry tank scheme claims rejected

DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson

Donaldson tells Boris: Sort out protocol, we can’t go on like this

Paul Givan resignation has created instability at Stormont.
Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

DUP protocol stance has support: Wilson
According to DUP MP Sammy Wilson, his party’s decision to resign its first minister in protest at the protocol has gone down well in London.

Lorries and goods being continued to be checked at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs checking facility in Belfast Port on Thursday, despite orders from Minister Edwin Poots for them to stop.
Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Irish Sea border checks must continue, orders High Court judge

Brandon Lewis

Court rules Brandon Lewis failed in duty to provide abortion services

Anti-abortion protest in Belfast. Picture by Bill Smyth

Supremacy of Parliament means Lewis can intervene over abortion, court told

John Larkin QC told the court: 'If the power to make law for NI can be handed to Brussels, it can just as easily be given to Dublin.' Mr Larkin’s logic is remorseless but unionist parties seem not to have confronted its importance

Owen Polley: NI Protocol is so serious that unionists should rethink everything

Internal UK checks at Belfast port. The Irish Sea border is reshaping Northern Ireland in ways that we haven’t even begun to understand. It exists only because British politicians would rather dismember their own country than risk the ire of Irish nationalists

Owen Polley: The NI Protocol is a calamity yet unionist response to it is timid

Alex Kane: Unionists might have to learn to live with the protocol

The prime minister said that the Act of Union had been protected and would not be broken. Justice Colton has told him otherwise

We will not let Boris break up the Union to mollify the EU and Ireland

Three of the applicants in the judicial review - Jim Allister, Baroness Hoey and Ben Habib - arrive at the High Court in Belfast to hear the outcome of their joint challenge against the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Pic: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

NI Protocol conflicts with the Act of Union – but is not unlawful, Belfast High ...

Spectre of Nazis invoked in Protocol case

Checks taking place at Larne.
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

NI Protocol ‘entirely lawful’, claims counsel for government

The overwhelming consensus amongst unionists in Northern Ireland is that the Protocol must be removed completely.

NI Protocol is ‘unlawful’ on a number of grounds, court challenge is told
The Northern Ireland Protocol is “unlawful on a number of grounds”, a court considering a challenge brought by unionists to its legality has heard.

Christopher Robinson saunters into court during his murder trial in September 2019. Despite facing a murder charge and despite repeatedly abusing his bail terms, he was not held in custody, as would happen in England in such a serious terrorist trial. Picture by Presseye/Stephen Hamilton

Ben Lowry: Only this newspaper repeatedly covered how Adrian Ismay’s murderer wa...