NI protocol ‘shifts the position’ of region compared to rest of UK, court told

On Wednesday, the former attorney general for Northern Ireland John Larkin KC, representing the group of appellants, argued the arrangement is incompatible with the law from 1800 that is “core to the union”.

The UK Supreme Court in London will hear the case for two days (PA)

The Northern Ireland Protocol “fundamentally shifts the position” of the region compared to the rest of the UK, the British Supreme Court has been told.

On Wednesday, the UK’s highest court heard a challenge to the protocol, a post-Brexit arrangement for the area designed to avoid a border on the island of Ireland.