Post 230: Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful
Read: 11 September 2019
Mr Johnson had previously insisted that it was normal practice for a new government to prorogue Parliament and that it was "nonsense" to suggest he was attempting to undermine democracy.
But the Scottish Court of Session judges were unanimous in finding that Mr Johnson was motivated by the "improper purpose of stymieing Parliament", and he had effectively misled the Queen in advising her to suspend Parliament.
Effectively, Scottish high court came to the polar opposite decision that the London courts came to. In London, the judges considered the matter purely political and of no significance to the law whilst the Scots saw it as an infringement to parliamentary sovereignty. Guess that what you get when your constitution is uncodified.
