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What do these two words mean? Are they interchangeable? Or are they different? If so, how?
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8–12 minutes to readCan the courts stop a prime minister from suspending Parliament? [Part-2 of 2: What the Supreme Court said, and Why]
We saw in Part-1 of 2, the problems that beset the UK when it chose to leave the EU. Prime Minister Boris Johnson suspended Parliament because he wanted a Brexit ‘with no deal’. The ...
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7–10 minutes to readCan the courts stop a prime minister from suspending Parliament? [Part-1: Johnson prorogues Parliament]
They can – as did the UK Supreme Court on 24 Sept 2019. The Court ruled that the PM Johnson’s advice to the Queen to suspend (‘prorogue’) Parliament had been unlawful. The Court declared ...
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There are a million laws: parliamentary acts, rules, regulations and the common law. How much law must a practising lawyer know? This question was answered when a tramcar crashed into a horse-drawn wagon. The year was 1916. ...
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