nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190916-232735-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190916s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190916-232735-0 doi eng 342 23 Grogan, Joelle Author aut Where Power Lies or Where Power Lied? The UK Supreme Court’s Role in the Prorogation of Parliament Grogan, Joelle Verfassungsblog 2019-09-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Tomorrow, on Tuesday 17 September, the UK Supreme Court will be asked to consider appeals from the Court of Session in Scotland, and the High Court in England on the question of whether prime minister Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen to prorogue parliament was lawful. Such a question will oblige the court to consider foundational questions of the separation of powers and the division between law and politics. It will also have to decide whether the motives of executive decision-making can be judged against principles of parliamentary sovereignty, democracy and the rule of law. If the Supreme Court finds the advice was unlawful, an even more difficult question arises in what sort of order may be given to remedy such a legal wrong: can the court order Parliament to return to a session which has ended, or the Queen to ‘un-prorogue’? funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 prorogation Rule of Law separation of powers Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/where-power-lies-or-where-power-lied/ raw object