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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
That's the issue. Governments can't be held to account by the courts for parliamentary procedure. What if this was about declaring war in defence of the realm, but the Green party wanted to stop it? Certainly for acts where it impacts individuals such as the example I gave above, then yes Judicial review.
But for parliamentary business where they are acting on a mandate?
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Peter, in a nutshell, the argument is that the government purposely closed down parliament so that our elected parliamentarians couldn't scrutinise what the executive was doing behind closed doors.
They are not arguing that the government doesn't have the right to prorogue parliament, but it's the way that it's been done so as to effectively shut parliament for over 5 weeks instead of the normal 2 or 3 days.