Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The much vaunted Donaldson Deal, based on the related Command Paper, accepted government assurances that, despite the plain words of Article 2 of the Protocol that the DUP is now implementing, the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights no longer applied in NI and thus the Legacy Act and other legislation was not subject to challenge on that basis.
“Today the High Court has ruled the opposite, citing Art 2 of the Protocol as a basis for ruling the key provisions of the legacy legislation must be disapplied.
“The real importance of this is not in respect of the Legacy Act, but, rather, the constitutional distinction now confirmed between GB and NI, with Northern Ireland on all such matters still held in subjection to EU law and rights under the DUP’s Protocol. This is the application of EU law in action.”