Scottish Legal Views: Elaine Motion on the historic prorogation litigation
“It is as if the prorogation order had never existed”, Elaine Motion, chairman of Balfour and Manson, told SLN on the day the Inner House ruled in Cherry that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was unlawful.
Last year saw Scotland’s legal system come under the world spotlight as Brexit litigation raged north and south of the border.
Now, in our latest Scottish Legal Views video, Ms Motion discusses that historic case.
It was unlike anything she had encountered before, things changed hour by hour “dependent on what was being put into the public domain by Mr Johnson”.