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Kill Brexit Now! - A brief outline of the proposed legal action: 1. The purported Article 50 Notification was unlawful (Queen's Consent)

In this post I want briefly to outline one strand of the legal action that I hope to begin (ideally with a group of like-minded individuals) at some point over the next few months. My aim here is simply to convey one line of legal argument in a form which is reasonably understandable to a layman. My contention is that no lawful "Notification" in the meaning of Paragraph 2 of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union exists. If I'm correct that there is no lawful "Notification", then the whole "Brexit" process will inevitably collapse. The only question is when. On 29th March 2017 Theresa May sent to the European Union a letter which purported to be a "Notification" in the meaning of Paragraph 2 of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. That "Notification" was supposedly based on a "Decision" of the kind referred to in Paragraph 1 of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. Does such a "Decision&qu

Kill Brexit Now! - Contacting Me

One of the explicit aims of this blog is to gather a group of like-minded individuals to begin a legal challenge to the unlawful purported Article 50 Notification of 29th March 2017. If you'd like to contact me for that or any other reason here are two ways in which you can do so. By email: killbrexitnow@gmail.com On Twitter: @KillBrexitNow If you contact me by email please don't necessarily expect an immediate reply. There are times when I'm focussing on legal research or other reasons means that I may not check my email for many days at a time.

Kill Brexit Now! - The aims of this blog

So-called "Brexit" is causing huge damage to the United Kingdom and many of its citizens and residents. Theresa May's purported Article 50 notification of 29th March 2017 is unlawful. I therefore expect "Brexit" to come to an ignominious and messy end. The longer this unlawful and fatally flawed "Brexit" process continues the more damage that will be caused to the interests of the United Kingdom, its citizens and residents. The sooner "Brexit" is killed the better. Hence Kill Brexit NOW! As time allows I'll post further information about the lines of analysis that lead me to the conclusion that the purported Article 50 Notification is unlawful. The aims of this blog include the following: Undermining and correcting the false public and political perception that a lawful Article 50 notification has been sent by the United Kingdom. Gathering a group of like-minded individuals to begin a formal legal challenge to the suppos