NI: Brexit case scheduled for Belfast High Court next month
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Mr Justice Maguire has set aside October 4 and 5 to hear legal challenges to Brexit with campaigners and a cross-party group of MPs separately arguing that it would be unlawful to trigger article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty without the approval of the UK Parliament.
The legal team for Raymond McCord, whose son was murdered by a loyalist death squad in 1997, will argue that Brexit is contrary to the UK’s domestic and international treaty obligations set under the Good Friday Agreement.
Brexiteers are currently campaigning for a ‘hard and fast’ exit from the EU, arguing that Article 50 should be triggered “within weeks not months”
The judge said: “We have to be clear on the plan of achieving completion of this litigation in a relatively short period of time.”
In a separate action MLAs will dispute the legality of the Brexit process citing a number of conditions they claim must be satisfied before Article 50 can be triggered.
Northern Ireland voted by 56 per cent in the June referendum to remain within the EU.
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