Still Living in Boris Johnson’s Brexit: The UK Supreme Court’s Dillon Judgment…

Colin Murray is a Professor of Law at Newcastle University. The UK Supreme Court’s judgment last week in Dillon undermines the UK’s commitments in the Brexit deal. The decision, relating to the previous Conservative Government’s Legacy Act of 2023, and its controversial amnesty provisions, demonstrates a high-handed disregard for Northern Ireland’s special constitutional arrangements. It amounts to an assertion that, after Brexit, the UK Parliament can legislate as it chooses and the...