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Die Zeit says the prime minister should resign while El País appeared to praise the judges.
PM’s reported plan to persuade EU to reject request for article 50 extension would be illegal, says ex-supreme court judge.
Boris Johnson appears to contradict his own claim that parliament suspension was 'nothing to do with Brexit'
24/09/2019
Former cabinet minister Amber Rudd says PM 'can't have it both ways'.
No.10 is adamant Boris Johnson will trigger an almighty political and constitutional crisis in a bid to stymie any Brexit extension.
PM says adverse supreme court ruling would not stop him proroguing parliament again.
Boris Johnson suffers triple defeat in Lords as peers vote against plans to allow lower courts to overrule EU law
20/01/2020
Peers also voted to provide EU citizens with physical proof of their right to stay in UK.
Boris Johnson to fast-track plans to curb legal challenges ‘in revenge for Brexit defeats’
15/01/2020
No 10 to target judicial reviews brought ‘for political motives’ to ‘restore trust’ – but a leading critic fears ‘a monstrous attack on the courts’.
Peers expected to attempt to amend bill as it passes through Lords.
Judges rule unanimously that PM’s decision to prorogue parliament can be examined by judges.
Judges reject legal challenge to UK-EU trade arrangements by group of unionist leaders.
Brexit Republic - Prime Minister fights back after top court rules his suspension of Parliament was illegal
26/09/2019
Boris Johnson's trip to the UN General Assembly is rudely interrupted by an historic Supreme Court ruling. But his blistering Commons' performance betrayed neither shame nor remorse. In the eye of the storm, and making sense of the upheaval, are RTÉ's Europe Editor in Brussels, Tony Connelly, and in Westminster, Sean Whelan.
Lord Neuberger condemns internal market bill for exempting some of its powers from legal challenge
Brexit, Padfield, and the Benn Act
27/09/2019
One welcome feature of this week’s Supreme Court decision on the prorogation issue was that it was openly and unapologetically a “constitutional” judgment.
Dominic Cummings: Boris Johnson adviser’s proposal to suspend parliament a second time was ‘joke’, Number 10 insists
15/09/2019
Boris Johnson’s most senior adviser has said the government could suspend parliament for a second time if it loses a crunch Supreme Court battle.
European court asked if legal basis for surrender of people from Ireland to UK still holds
20/07/2021
The Supreme Court wants the Court of Justice of the EU to decide important legal issues concerning whether there is any legal basis, post-Brexit, for the continuance of the European Arrest Warrant system for the surrender of people between Ireland and the UK.
Ex-Supreme Court judge says government has ‘behaved disgracefully’, but says judges can’t be political
17/09/2019
Lord Sumption has accused Boris Johnson of taking a 'hammer and sickle' to the nation's political culture over the issue of prorogation
Supreme court told PM will ‘abide’ by any ruling but minister declines to say if MPs could be sent away again immediately.
Unchecked, unbalanced and channelling an unsavoury populism, a prime minister that I’ve helped to keep in check in the courts could soon be free to do whatever he pleases
Final arguments at supreme court raise question of who has power to bring parliament back
Justice Secretary refuses to rule out shutting down parliament again and casts doubt on Queen's Speech
17/09/2019
Asked if a second prorogation is 'remotely conceivable', Robert Buckland says events are too volatile to make predictions.
Lady Hale wishes she never wore spider brooch during Supreme Court ruling on suspension of Parliament
04/12/2023
Lady Hale hit headlines for wearing a spider brooch during the Supreme Court ruling on Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament.
Lord Sumption says possible Government plans to alter judicial review are 'a recipe for tyranny'
17/01/2020
The Conservatives are to review the 'constitutional plumbing' of the country to stop the courts being used for political ends.
Dominic Raab refused to rule out a further prorogation of Parliament, ahead of the Supreme Court's ruling on the issue.
Remainiacs Ep. 139: JUDGMENT DAY Supreme Court EmergencyCast with David Allen Green and Schona Jolly QC
24/09/2019
Just how damning was the Supreme Court judgment on Johnson’s illegal prorogation? How on earth can the Government brief against the most significant constitutional judgment in – possibly – centuries? Where do we go from here? Should we all go out and get drunk? And who would pick fight with Lady Hale, with her laser eye and her spider brooch?
As Parliament returns in righteous anger ... the Remainiacs team reconvene to find out if everything really has changed. / Should the Labour Party be grateful that the Supreme Court furore took the spotlight off the Brexit stitch-up at its conference? Who spiked Geoffrey Cox’s latte with crazy juice and how did Barry Shearman handle it? ... And why won’t Boris Johnson resign?
What did we think would happen in the Supreme Court the following day (and how wrong were we)? Who are our Brexit Heroes and why? What has Brexit done to the nature of British identity? And – most importantly – who will get what in the next rounds of Leave Or Remain? It’s all worth listening to and still 90% relevant.
Peers back three amendments including right of EU citizens to physical proof of right to stay in UK.
R (on the application of Miller) (Appellant) v The Prime Minister (Respondent) / Cherry and others (Respondents) v AdvocateGeneral for Scotland (Appellant) (Scotland)
UK’s top judges unanimously rule on prime minister's proroguing of parliament ahead of Brexit deadline.
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had acted unlawfully when he advised Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament weeks before Brexit - and that therefore the suspension was void.
Supreme Court ruling on whether Boris Johnson unlawfully closed parliament to be delivered on Tuesday
23/09/2019
Judges to hand down verdict in historic case, with government expected to face calls to recall parliament immediately if suspension is declared void.
The appellants argue that the legislation passed at Westminster to give effect to the Withdrawal Agreement conflicts with the 1800 Acts of Union.
Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.
The Supreme Court case tomorrow is about more than Brexit – it’s so we can have a Britain free of tyranny
16/09/2019
What we are witnessing is an historic attempt at a power grab by the executive, from the people. It can not be allowed to stand.
Following the Supreme Court's judgment that the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful, the 2017-19 parliamentary session will resume on 25 September 2019.
Former reviewer of terror laws says minister’s foreword mischaracterises experts’ conclusions.
Longest-serving supreme court justice says healthy democracy requires checks on ministers.
The U.K. Supreme Court says will hold hearings in October on whether Scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the British government.
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to the lawfulness of the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol, which governs post-Brexit trade between the British province and mainland Britain.
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