Category Archives: Article 50

People’s Challenge – Report from the High Court: Day 1

Despite being the biggest courtroom in the Royal Courts of Justice, Court 4 was packed to capacity and beyond yesterday. Impressively, following a suggestion from our legal team,the court staff had arranged for live video links to screens elsewhere in … Continue reading

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People’s Challenge – Thank you & why we are pushing on past £150,000

We have raised the necessary money for the hearings in the Divisional  Court, this is an important milestone. However this fight for Parliamentary democracy is a marathon not a sprint. Pushing on past the magic £150,000. We’ve been focussing on … Continue reading

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The Article 50 hearing – Q and A

On 13th, 17th and the morning of 18th October 2016 the Divisional Court will hear the judicial review challenge to the Government’s plans to trigger Article 50 to take the UK out of the EU. The target of the challenge … Continue reading

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Even Tory Leavers are waking up to Theresa May’s subversion of democracy.

In one of today’s Guardian articles, pro-Leave Conservative MP Stephen Phillips decries the tyranny of Theresa May’s government in trying to bypass Parliament regarding Brexit. Phillips said: “I and many others did not exercise our vote in the referendum so as … Continue reading

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People’s Challenge: Evidence & submissions in – trial in sight

This short update is to bring people up to date with this week’s developments. Our legal team is also preparing a detailed Q and A about what exactly will happen during the trial which we will post very soon. So … Continue reading

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What the People’s Challenge IS NOT about and what it IS about

The Peoples’ Challenge to the Government (www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/Parliament-should-decide🙂 IS NOT about overturning the Referendum. It is as it is, just as Breakfast is Breakfast. Everyone has to “get over it and move on”, as we are frequently told. This is us … Continue reading

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We should all want Article 50 to be subject to Parliament’s will

Leave voters didn’t vote for Brexit to make this place irrelevant. September has ended, ladies and gentleman, and much has changed since the 23rd of June. Theresa May is Prime Minister, Article 50 is scheduled to be triggered by the end … Continue reading

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Theresa May… from Tory Home Secretary to UKIP Prime Minister in less than 4 months.

Here is UKIP’s Steven Woolfe on Theresa May’s speech yesterday: “Theresa May has just delivered a speech that accepts the decision of the people of the United Kingdom. Control of our borders, laws, fisheries and money should be in our … Continue reading

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David Davis attends hard-Brexit cabal meeting

David Davis, our illustrious Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (“Yes, Minister” much?) has been saying that he is consulting widely to gather diverse views on Brexit: to use my grandfather’s word, cobblers. So far Mr Davis appears to … Continue reading

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Theresa May on Art. 50 by March: Here’s my Challenge to her

The latest on Brexit is that Theresa May will trigger article 50 by march 2017. On Sunday morning, on Andrew Marr’s radio programme, she also said that there would be a “Great Repeal Bill” to enshrine all EU law in … Continue reading

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