Earlier today May won a Brexit court case
May won a case this morning over giving MP's the right to vote for the UK to leave the single market. The claim was based on the fact that leaving the EEA was not explicitly put on the ballot paper.
The actual judgement was supposed to be announced at 2pm GMT but it was either ignored, late, or the judges were down the pub as it's Friday.
Anyway, her ladyship Lilac sniffed it out (long after I had given up) and the case was thrown out on the grounds that it was premature and that the government might act at a later time.
"On the evidence before us, there is at present no final decision by the UK Government as to how it proposes to act in relation to the EEA Agreement and in particular how the EEA Agreement might cease to apply to the UK. In our judgement the present claims are premature. The court cannot be sure which, if any of the issues raised will require adjudication by the courts."
The two parties who brought the claim also issued a statement saying that as the case was not dismissed as a point of law, they are likely to be back with another challenge at another time in the future.
"Purely on procedural grounds our application for a judicial review was dismissed, but with the door firmly left ajar for future proceedings should the Government not resolve this issue. Because the Government has still not made up its mind on the mechanism it will use to remove us from the single market, our claim was held to be premature. But it was not held to be wrong in law. It is highly likely we will be here again."
One to file in the "Can kick" folder.
