Brexit legal challenge: 'A six year old child could see flaws in Government's Brexit plans', Supreme Court told
Fourth and final day of the Supreme Court Brexit legal challenge has been heard and the judges have now retired to consider their decision
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Your support makes all the difference.The Government's Brexit plans are so flawed "even a six year old child could see it", the Supreme Court has been told.
The claims were made by Richard Gordon QC, Law Officer of the Welsh Government, who told the court Welsh politicians should be allowed to approve plans to trigger Article 50.
The Supreme Court was hearing final arguments in the Brexit legal challenge as the case entered its fourth and final day.
Opponents to the Government's Brexit plans outlined their case; with representatives of Wales, Scotland, ex-pats and children's rights putting their case to judges.
The Government's lawyers then had their final opportunity to refute the claims and make their case that Theresa May has sufficient authority to trigger Article 50 without a vote from MPs. The argued the 2015 Referendum Act which outlined the terms of the EU referendum did not specify who could trigger Article 50.
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All 11 of the Supreme Court justices, who are the most senior judges in the UK, heard the case and have now retired to reach their decision.
A judgment is expected to be announced early in the new year.
(This is the bit of his written case that Eadie is developing.) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cy6WoRgWIAAnCtI.jpg
Crucial q asked of the government's lawyers now- Was 1972 European Communities Act neutral about whether UK member of European treaties?
The 1972 European Communities Act was the legislation which brought the UK into the EU
Eadie now takes us to De Keyser's Hotel and this section. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cy6Y71gW8AAYDFO.jpg
In football terms:Can government exercise prerogative - still in own half.Can prerogative be used to affect rights - in opposing half.
Eadie shows the SC these passages from De Keyser. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cy6aPXIWIAAgR98.jpg
Eadie trying to make this be all about de Keyser's - wholly irrelevant IMO. This case is *not* about whether prerogative removed by Parlt
It's about whether the prerogative can be used so as to frustrate the purpose of a statute or remove rights granted by or under statute.
De Keyser case referred to in court is a case from 1920 when a hotel owner sought compensation for the army occupying his hotel during WWI
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