![]() ![]() Neither house can debate government policy. ![]() While parliament is prorogued, neither house can meet, debate or pass legislation. Proroguing parliament is quite different from parliament going into recess. “It prevented parliament from carrying out its constitutional role for five out of the possible eight weeks between the end of the summer recess and exit day on 31 October. The courts have exercised a supervisory jurisdiction over the lawfulness of acts of the government for centuries.“ “The first question is whether the lawfulness of the prime minister’s advice to Her Majesty is justiciable. They are only about whether the advice given by the prime minister to Her Majesty the Queen on 27 or 28 August, that parliament should be prorogued from a date between 9 and 12 September until 14 October, was lawful and the legal consequences if it was not.” “It is important, once again, to emphasise that these cases are not about when and on what terms the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union. ![]() That the court judgment was not about Brexit ![]()
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