Tag: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Colin Murray: Vichy France and Vassalage: Hyperbole versus the Northern Ireland Protocol
Brexit has posed a profound challenge for Northern Ireland’s fragile constitutional arrangements. Those very arrangements provided for a delicate balance of Northern Ireland’s constitutional position. Northern Ireland is part of the UK only with the continuing consent of the people of Northern Ireland, and the 1998 Agreement provided for a range of measures which connected Ireland and…
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Jack Simson Caird and Ellis Paterson: Could the UK Courts Disapply Domestic Legislation to Enforce the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland?
If the Withdrawal Agreement is approved, then Parliament will be asked to legislate to give domestic legal effect to its content through the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill. One of the most significant provisions of the Withdrawal Agreement, Article 4, purports to give the entire contents of the Withdrawal Agreement special status within the UK’s constitutional…