http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20191001-232818-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-rule-of-law-not-the-rule-of-politics/ The Rule of Law, not the Rule of Politics Grogan, Joelle eng 2019-10-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 brexit Parliamentary Sovereignty prorogation separation of powers Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 24 September 2019, just two weeks after Parliament had been controversially prorogued by Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the UK Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment holding that such prorogation was ‘unlawful, null, and of no effect’. Parliament was not and had never been prorogued. But this is not likely to be the end of such questioning of the fundamentals of the constitution and – in particular – the limits of executive power.