Judges reject legal challenge to UK-EU trade arrangements by group of unionist leaders
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The Northern Ireland protocol is lawful, the supreme court has ruled, rejecting a legal challenge to the Brexit arrangements by a group of unionist leaders including the former first ministers the late David Trimble and Arlene Foster.
The highest court in the UK unanimously dismissed the judicial review appeal on all three grounds including the claims that the Brexit trading arrangements breached the 1800 Act of Union, the Northern Ireland Act 1998.