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Lawyers for 78 parliamentarians who claim that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to his Brexit deadline was unlawful today said the court fight would continue. After hearing arguments from both sides in the Outer House of the Court of Session

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MPs will today vote on legislation aimed at forcing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request an extension to the Brexit deadline if the UK cannot reach an agreement with the EU this month on the terms of its withdrawal. In a tense Westminster vote last night, MPs voted by 328-301 to take control of t

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The planned five-week prorogation of Parliament will establish a "dangerous precedent" and undermine the "integrity" of the British constitution, a group of legal academics has warned. In a letter to The Times, the group – which includes Professor Michel Keating of the Univ

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Paul Craig, professor of English law at St John's College, Oxford and an authority on administrative and EU law, writes about important issues of constitutional principle and law raised by the prospect of prorogation as well as those concerning fact and causation. Constitutional principle and law

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The Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC's application to intervene in the prorogation case at the Court of Session today has been accepted. Mr Wolffe has lodged applications to intervene in two legal cases aimed at preventing the suspension of the UK Parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline.

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An emergency legal bid to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from suspending Parliament has begun at the Court of Session. Seventy-five parliamentarians are supporting the action which seeks an interim interdict to prevent the suspension of Parliament pending a full hearing, to begin on 6 September.

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Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, will hear victims' rights campaigner Raymond McCord's legal challenge to the prorogation of Parliament tomorrow at the High Court in Belfast. Mr McCord launched the challenge two weeks ago in a bid to prevent the Prime Minister from

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In the wake of a possible no-deal Brexit, the law surrounding consumerism could be subject to various vital changes, writes Jeremy Glen. Legislation currently governing the protection of consumers is essential in the development of the internal market. It ensures that consumers within the EU are pro

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UK officials will withdraw from most EU meetings, including important meetings on European law and policy, with effect from 1 September 2019. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs last month that “very many brilliant UK officials” are “trapped in meeting after meeting in Brussels a

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