Supreme Court

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The Good Friday Agreement is a treaty and as such part of international law. However, the consent provisions of the GFA remain largely unimplemented in UK law.

Dan Boucher: GFA protection for UK must be translated into domestic law

Joanna Cook of the Christian Institute

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Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International UK's Northern Ireland deputy director, speaking to the media outside Belfast High Court after a High Court judge ruled that one of the key elements in the UK government's Troubles Act is unlawful. Mr Justice Adrian Colton ruled that the provision for conditional immunity from prosecution for Troubles offences in the Act is not compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

Campaigners say battle against Legacy Act is ‘half won’

The motion in the House of Commons makes it look like Article 6 is being protected. But to be convinced you have to pretend that the courts haven’t said what they said

Jamie Bryson: Westminster humble motion on Act of Union is just trickery

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson with, left, deputy, Gavin Robinson, who recently highlighted the benefits of the new deal struck with the UK government

Letter: DUP leadership has been dishonest in bid to sell their deal

Letters to editor

Letter: Henry Patterson over-complicates demand to restore Article 6

Article 6 is not some incidental or archaic provision - it is fundamental to the very existence of the UK, writes Jim Allister

Letter: Article 6 is necessary and central to our Union

The Supreme Court rejected Rishi Sunak's immigration plan as unlawful. Now critics say that the legislation cannot apply in Northern Ireland on the same basis as the rest of the country, because of the Windsor Framework

Owen Polley: The Rwanda bill could mean a tricky start to 2024 for unionists

Morning View

Editorial: PSNI right not to appeal court ruling but that cannot be end of saga

As the late Lord Trimble accurately said ‘the Union is the Acts of Union’

Jim Allister: Article 6 of Acts of Union must be restored

Letters to editor

Letter: State can be dismantled without breaching agreement

PSNI officers on patrol in south Belfast. Pacemaker

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Gerry Adams in 1984. In 2020 his appeal against his 1975 conviction was allowed in the Supreme Court on the grounds his internment had not been considered personally by the Secretary of State even though it had been signed by the Minister of State. It was a crazy judgement that totally undermined the Carltona principle that had operated in UK law since 1939 — allowing cabinet ministers to delegate decisions

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Gerry Adams will be prevented from claiming compensation after a government amendment was accepted in the House of Lords to the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill

Letter: Legacy Bill amendment restores a fundamental rule of constitutional law
A letter by Richard Ekins KC (Hon):
Letters

Morning View

Editorial: State should apologise for when it failed to catch terrorists

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

Morning View

Editorial: Ex RUC face ongoing injustice, as identified by judge

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A session with local business leaders during a visit to Coca-Cola HBC in Lisburn, Co Antrim in Northern Ireland. Mr Sunak is visiting Northern Ireland to sell the Windsor Framework deal secured with the European Union. Picture date: Tuesday February 28, 2023.

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TUV leader Jim Allister at the TUV party conference at the Royal Hotel in Cookstown, Co Tyrone. Picture date: Saturday March 25, 2023.

For unionists there is nothing to celebrate in Belfast Agreement: Jim Allister

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Donald Trump indicted: What is it and will he go to jail?

Letters to editor

Letter: The wishes of 80% of NI people who back Windsor deal are not important

Northern Ireland Secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris outside the White House in Washington, DC, during the Taoiseachs visit to the US for St Patrick's Day. Picture date: Thursday March 16, 2023.

UK government to assure DUP on NI’s status amid Supreme Court judgment concerns

Rishi Sunak and Ursula Von Der Leyen announcing the new deal earlier this week

'The only thing standing in the way of this Windsor Framework deal is the DUP'

Letters to editor

Court ruling shows how NI Protocol has modified UK's unwritten constitution

Not one Supreme Court justice was concerned at the way in which minority safeguards have been discarded for the protocol, or about the way trade between NI and Great Britain has been disastrously impeded, or about the implications for the principle of consent. As John Larkin KC put it, the principle of consent now amounts only to the final transfer of sovereignty

Ben Lowry: Don't expect unionists to cheer anniversary of 1998 Belfast Agreement
The secretary of state has used the prospect of passing ‘Dáithí’s Law’ as the latest way to put pressure on the DUP to return to Stormont.
Ben Lowry

Mervyn Gibson

Mervyn Gibson: Attitudes to Protocol among Orange brethren hardening

The Supreme Court found that the Act of Union had been subjugated and remains suspended whilst the protocol remans. The court's interpretation of the principle of consent means that you can change everything regarding Northern Ireland’s place in the Union except the last handover of sovereignty

Jamie Bryson: Supreme Court did say NI's constitutional status had been changed

UVF placard in east Belfast

PUP: If we knew what GFA in '94 really meant UVF wouldn't have gone on ceasefire

Jamie Bryson

Bryson: Supreme Court Protocol judgement will fuel 'anger and resistance'

The adjudication by the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed unequivocally that British citizens in Northern Ireland are not on the same footing as those in Great Britain.
It accepted that Article VI of the Acts of Union, which guarantees such equal footing in terms of trade within the UK, had been subjugated by it

Protocol challengers: UK’s top court confirms our fears about Irish Sea border

RETRANSMITTING ADDING NAMES DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (left), Ben Habib (second left), Baroness Kate Hoey (centre), and former first minister Dame Arlene Foster (right), outside the UK Supreme Court in London, where judges are delivering a ruling on the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The legality of the contentious trading arrangements has been challenged by a collective of unionists and Brexiteers. The protocol, which is a key aspect of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, was jointly designed by London and Brussels to keep Ireland's land border free flowing following the UK's departure from the EU. Picture date: Wednesday February 8, 2023.

Northern Ireland Protocol case: Here are the five applicants in their own words

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said today that 'the longer the protocol remains, the more it will harm the Union itself'

Supreme Court protocol verdict: All the reaction from main Stormont parties

Steve Aiken

Protocol court challenge fails: Aiken says ruling 'shows up inconsistencies'

TUV leader Jim Allister today said that the Supreme Court ruling 'must embolden the political campaign against the protocol'

Court verdict 'does not affect political unacceptability of NI Protocol' - TUV

Jim Allister (PA)

Protocol court challenge fails: TUV says 'political war must go on'

Matthew O'Toole

Protocol court challenge fails: SDLP urges 'caution and restraint' over ruling

The Port of Larne

Supreme Court ruling on protocol leaves Belfast Agreement 'broken': Ben Habib

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (left), Ben Habib (back left), Baroness Kate Hoey (second right), and former first minister Dame Arlene Foster (right), outside the UK Supreme Court in London

Supreme Court rules that Northern Ireland Protocol is lawful

The legality of the contentious trading arrangements has been challenged by a collective of unionists and Brexiteers

Supreme Court set to rule on lawfulness of Northern Ireland Protocol

The protocol is an affront to UK sovereignty which ‘no unionist can ever come to terms with’, says Jim Allister

Jim Allister: Legal challenge flushed out real meaning of NI Protocol

Morning View

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Jim Allister, Kate Hoey and Ben Habib, seen outside Belfast high court at an earlier stage of the NI Protocol legal challenge, are among those challenging the Irish Sea border. It is often said that the protocol didn’t change our constitutional position. The judicial review showed this claim to be threadbare

Owen Polley: The challengers of the NI Protocol are heroes of the Union

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

Tony McGleenan, the government barrister, making his arguments before the Supreme Court

EU threatens UK airlines whilst court told Acts of Union 'modestly disapplied'

John Larkin KC

Protocol ‘shifts position of Northern Ireland in the UK’ Supreme Court is told

Two legal challenges have been mounted against the protocol

Legal papers for Northern Ireland protocol case ‘held by customs’

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Pro and anti abortion protestors have gathered at the US Supreme Court since it ended the right to abortion

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delivers a statement to MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, on her plans to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence before the end of 2023

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President Richard Nixon talks to Gerald Ford in the Oval Office at the White House in 1974 about the transition of power prior to Nixon’s resignation after the Watergate scandal. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images).

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Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Ulster University, Jordanstown
TUV Leader Jim Allister
Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

Dates set for Supreme Court legal challenge

(Left-right) Jim Allister, Kate Hoey and Ben Habib arrive at the High Court in Belfast, where a judgment is expected in the challenge to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Legal challenge to protocol being sent to Supreme Court

News Letter editorial

Scandal of RUC facing collusion findings that don’t stand up in court