Belfast court rejects two challenges to Brexit

Mr Justice Maguire, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the 28 October 2016, dismissed two judicial review challenges in Northern Ireland to the way the United Kingdom Government intended to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union to trigger withdrawal from the EU.

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