Belfast City Council has agreed to legally challenge DUP Minister Edwin Poots over his order to halt Irish Sea border checks last week.
At a special meeting of the full council on Monday, the council backed a Sinn Fein motion to authorise the city solicitor John Walsh to commence legal proceedings to “compel the minister and the British government to comply with protocol requirements, subject to any current derogations in the grace period.”
The vote received 29 in favour, from Sinn Fein, Alliance, the SDLP, the Green Party, and People Before Profit, and 18 against from all the unionist parties, and one independent unionist.
