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June–September 2019

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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On 9 September, the European Union (Withdrawal) (No 2) Act 2019 received Royal Assent and Parliament was prorogued until 14 October. The prorogation was challenged in the courts both in England and Wales and in Scotland, and a strong Divisional Court of Queen's Bench and the Inner House of the Court of Session came to opposite conclusions as to its legality. The judgments were appealed to the Supreme Court, and on 24 September an eleven-judge bench handed down a unanimous judgment in the conjoined cases of Miller and Cherry.

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Government and Parliamentary Report
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 70 - 75
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2019

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References

1 R (Miller) v The Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41 and Cherry and Ors v Advocate General for Scotland.

2 Available at <http://www.facultyoffice.org.uk/special-licences/marriage-law-news/>, accessed 9 September 2019.

3 Available at <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/815741/Civil_Partnerships_-_Next_Steps_and_Consultation_on_Conversion.pdf>, accessed 9 September 2019.

4 R (Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32.

5 Available at <https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsxou24uy7q/uploads/2019/07/Terms-of-reference-for-the-Law-Commission-review-of-weddings-FINAL.pdf>, accessed 9 September 2019.

6 Available at <https://christianpersecutionreview.org.uk/interim-report/>, accessed 13 May 2019.

7 Available at <https://christianpersecutionreview.org.uk/storage/2019/07/final-report-and-recommendations.pdf>, accessed 9 September 2019.

8 Foreign & Commonwealth Office, ‘Press release: UK appoints new Prime Minister's Envoy for Freedom of Religion and Belief’, 12 September 2019, <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-appoints-new-pm-envoy-for-freedom-of-religion-belief>, accessed 9 October 2019.

9 Available at <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-prevent-terms-of-reference/independent-review-of-prevent-terms-of-reference>, accessed 9 October 2019. A call for evidence was published on 7 October.