Dooom35796821595 wrote:Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:As said by Fart, this is a challenge before a British court. They can strike it down.
And the deal can moet certainly be struck down by the ECJ, since the ECJ will retain jurisdiction over the UK for the two year transition period. Honestly, did you read the deal?
As a footnote, you also mixed up the ECJ and the ECtHR. The ECtHR will retain its jurisdiction over the UK since it is not leaving the Council of Europe, a completely different organisation from the EU.
The UK Supreme Court can’t strike down an act of Parliament.
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2011/01/2 ... confusion/
“No it cannot. Unlike some Supreme Courts in other parts of the world, the UK Supreme Court does not have the power to ‘strike down’ legislation passed by the UK Parliament. It is not the Court’s role to formulate public policy, but to interpret law and develop it where necessary, through well-established processes and methods of reasoning.”
They're not asking the Court to strike down anything. They're asking it to prevent the deal being voted on in the first place as accepting it would be breaking current British law. One the law in question has been changed then it could be presented for a vote in Parliament.
It's a tactic to delay the vote past tomorrow to force Boris to send the extension request to Europe.