Submitted on Saturday 5th November 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 9th November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Certain UK newspapers must appear before the Parliamentary Justice Committee.
Since the High Court ruling instructing the government to consult Parliament before invoking Article 50 to begin Brexit, a number of newspapers have launched personal attacks on the three High Court judges who gave the ruling, and on the members of the Supreme Court likely to hear the appeal.
The coverage of this ruling by the Mail, Telegraph and Sun undermines the rule of law in the UK. The judiciary has been described as an 'unelected elite' with no acknowledgement of the entirely constitutional separation of powers which guarantees the independence of the judiciary from the executive. Instead, coverage has sought to incite hatred and contempt both for the law and the individual judges - even suggesting that one judge's sexuality made him unfit to rule in the case.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions which call on the Government or the House of Commons as a whole to take action. We can’t accept a petition which calls on a specific committee to take a particular action.
We could accept a petition calling on the House of Commons to refer a specific matter to a committee. In this case, a petition could ask the House to refer the matter of the conduct of the press to the Justice Committee, and suggest that the Committee might wish to take evidence from UK newspapers.
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