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CO/5012/2017: Phillip Mott QC refuses permission for Judicial Review

Phillip Mott QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, today refused permission for Judicial Review in CO/5012/2017. CO/5012/2017 is subject to an application for a confidentiality order so I have redacted the applicant's name in the documents that I have put online. See Refusal of Permission for Judicial Review in CO/5012/2017 for scanned copies of the decision by Phillip Mott QC.

CO/5929/2017 - The Government response to the "Article 50 Challenge"

Many readers of this blog will be aware of the so-called Article 50 Challenge whose Claim for Judicial Review is numbered CO/5929/2017. The Government Legal Department has made available to me the Secretary of State's Summary Grounds of Resistance to the Article 50 Challenge. The Secretary of State's Summary Grounds of Resistance are to be found here: Secretary of State's Summary Grounds of Resistance in CO/5929/2017 Reading between the lines Elizabeth Webster's Claim corresponds broadly to Ground C of my Claim CO/5050/2017. Ms. Webster and those behind her have on several occasions refused me sight of their Claim documents so I can't currently make the substance of her Claim publicly available. The secrecy surrounding the substance of Elizabeth Webster's Claim puzzles me. Surely she should be making such documents publicly available at the earliest opportunity to inform those who might donate to her cause? A request has been made to the Administ

CO/5050/2017: Mr. Justice Walker refuses permission to apply for Judicial Review of Brexit

A number of people have been asking about the outcome of my Claim for Judicial Review mentioned in earlier posts on this blog. On 15th January 2018 Mr. Justice Walker refused permission for me to apply for Judicial Review. The documents sent to me on 17th January 2018 by the Administrative Court can be found on the following link: Documents on Refusal of Permission for JR in CO/5050/2017 I have many thoughts about the content of Mr. Justice Walker's decision. Watch this space.

CO/3008/2017: Mrs. Justice Yip refuses permission tor Judicial Review of Brexit

In the last few days I've learned of a fourth application for Judicial Review of Brexit. I refer to the application as the "fourth" application but it is in fact the first of the four applications of which I'm aware in date order. The four applications of which I'm aware are: CO/3008/2017 CO/5012/2017 - which is subject to an application for a confidentiality order CO/5050/2017 - my own Claim CO/5929/2017 - the Claim of Elizabeth Margaret Webster Here are some basic facts about the Claim for Judicial Review CO/3008/2017. The Claimant was Martyn Truss. Martyn Truss's Claim was issued on 26th June 2017. The Government Legal Department's Summary Grounds of Resistance authored by the barrister Tom Cross was dated 13th July 2107. It appears that Martyn Truss made an application on 24th July 2017. I assume that application was for urgency but it's unclear from the limited documents that I have seen so far. Another possibility is that Ma