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October 2019–January 2020

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2020

Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University

Extract

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the conjoined cases of Miller and Cherry that the advice given by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty that Parliament should be prorogued from a date between 9 and 12 September until 14 October was unlawful, and that the resulting Order in Council and the prorogation itself were also unlawful, void and of no effect – so it was back to the constitutional drawing-board. Parliament was subsequently prorogued from 8 to 14 October, sat until 5 November and was dissolved at 00.01 am on the following day.

Type
Government and Parliamentary Report
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2020

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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 Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41.

3 At <http://www.churchofengland.org> and <http://www.churchsupporthub.org>, accessed 12 February 2020.

4 HL Deb 30 January 2020, vol 801, cols 1608–1612.

8 Under ‘general queries’: see <http://www.lpwscheme.org.uk/frequently_asked_questions.html>, accessed 7 February 2020.