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UK Supreme Court to hear Brexit appeal next month

The Middlesex Guildhall, home of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Britain's Supreme Court has said it will hear the government's appeal against a High Court ruling that has stipulated that the country cannot leave the European Union without the permission of Parliament.

Three senior judges ruled last week that Parliament, not the government of Prime Minister Theresa May alone, can trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal process for beginning Brexit.

The ruling means May would not be able to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval. She had planned to start the process by March 2017 and bring it to completion in two years.

A co Supreme Court statement said on Tuesday that all 11 judges will hear the case, which could delay Brexit, in early December and will deliver their judgment "probably in the New Year.”

The Conservative government had said it would appeal against the landmark ruling that Prime Minister May cannot begin the Brexit process without Parliament's approval.

On June 23, nearly 52 percent of Britons voted to leave the EU, after 43 years of membership, a decision that sent shockwaves throughout the world.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo by AFP)

May later said she would start the process by March 2017 and bring it to completion in two years. She also said that the British parliament would not vote on triggering the EU divorce, but a debate could be held over the government’s Brexit plan, an idea not welcomed by the court.

May’s spokesman has already said the government was “determined to continue with our plans,” and had "no intention of letting” the ruling “derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out.”

The British premier has also been under pressure by some politicians to pursue the so-called hard Brexit, which suggests surrendering access to the EU’s single market and scrap free movement of EU nationals in return for securing control over immigration.

 


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