Ousting the courts won’t work

At high-level webinar, QC says parliament cannot exclude judicial review

Lord Pannick QC, the barrister who defeated the government in the two case he argued for Gina Miller, has predicted that a key clause in the government’s internal market bill will not succeed in ousting the jurisdiction of the courts.

Clause 45 of the bill says that regulations to be made by ministers “are not to be regarded as unlawful on the grounds of…