Submitted on Tuesday 28th June 2016
Rejected on Sunday 3rd July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
The UK Government Must Not Invoke Article 50 Without an Act of Parliament
Through our membership of the EU, British citizens have a host of conferred legal rights, including statutory rights. The UK Government cannot use common law to remove or nullify these rights without parliamentary approval; its prerogative power cannot be used to overturn statutory rights.
Article 50 says; “Any member state may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.”
A fundamental UK constitutional requirement is that withdrawal from the EU requires the approval of parliament & an Act of Parliament. Triggering the UK’s exit from the EU without parliamentary approval would be legally ineffective under domestic law, would fail to comply with the requirements of Article 50 & would not be effective in European Law.
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