"nightjar" wrote in message
...
On 18/08/2019 21:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 18/08/2019 19:45, nightjar wrote:
On 18/08/2019 16:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 18/08/2019 16:48, nightjar wrote:
On 17/08/2019 19:19, harry wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpnU...5bngutC Bhjpc


AIUI the Court is being asked to decide a point of law. If so, the
government is not on trial and does not need to mount a defence. What
it has done is to present a case to the Court. However, withdrawing
that case does not necessarily affect the decision of the Court.
Either the extension was lawful or it was unlawful and that is what it
will rule on.

It is a British court. It has no power to judge on the extension which
comes under international law, ...

You seem to be confusing the extension granted by the EU with the change
of date of leaving under UK law. The latter is the extension being
challenged.


There is no 'date of leaving under UK law'

There is: exit day, as defined by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
and as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2019. It is the
latter Act that is being challenged.

If UK law is supreme, we never joined the EU in the first place!

That is covered by the European Communities Act 1972, even if the name of
the organisation we joined has changed.

We signed a treaty. By the terms of that treaty which supercedes UK law,
we havent left.

We also made a declaration under Article 50 of that treaty,

Yes.

which allows us to withdraw on a date of our choosing, subject to UK
legislation.

Only if that is before 29-Mar-2019