El caso brexit ante los jueces constitucionales del Reino Unido: comentarios a la Sentencia de la Alta Corte de Justicia de 3 de noviembre de 2016, confirmada por el Tribunal Supremo en Sentencia de 24 de enero de 2017

Authors

  • Allan R. Brewer-Carías

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rap.202.04

Keywords:

Parliament Sovereignty, European Union, Judicial Review, Constitutional Statute, Referendum.

Abstract

This comment analyzes the constitutional arguments followed by the High Court of Justice and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, exercising judicial review upon the intention of the Government to give notice to the European Union for the exit of Great Britain only exercising its prerogative powers, based on the principle of Parliament Sovereignty, its prevalence upon the popular will expressed in the European Union Referendum of`23 of June of 2016, and on the constitutional statute character of the European Communities Act de 1972, imposing the Government the need to request the previous authorization from the Parliament to give such notice. 

Issue

Section

CASE LAW