A New Constitutional Dawn for Unionism?

Case note / analysis of the Belfast High Court’s (Queen’s Bench Division) Ruling on the Protocol Ireland/Northern Ireland of 30 June 2021, [2021] NIQB 64. The main argument is that the High Court embraced some of the misguided assumption of Unionist critique of the EU / UK Withdrawal Agreement (Protocol Ireland/Northern Ireland), such as the accession to the EEC back in 1973 being equated with a "surrender" of sovereignty, or - more worringly - any international agreement including the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement being a mere political document unsuitable for judicial enforcement. Even if that judgement does not stand, that support for one partition of political elements in Northern Ireland will continue to exert influence.