evidence: The Traditional Unionist Voice leader and Assembly member (MLA) Jim Allister, who was one of those who took a legal challenge against the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that the ruling would be appealed and could go as far as the UK's Supreme Court. "This battle is far from over because we refuse to accept that the Union is over, which is the message of the Protocol," he said outside Belfast High Court. Legal challenges against the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol were dismissed by a High Court judge in Belfast.