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...