CO/5929/2017 - The Government response to the "Article 50 Challenge"

Many readers of this blog will be aware of the so-called Article 50 Challenge whose Claim for Judicial Review is numbered CO/5929/2017.

The Government Legal Department has made available to me the Secretary of State's Summary Grounds of Resistance to the Article 50 Challenge.

The Secretary of State's Summary Grounds of Resistance are to be found here:

Secretary of State's Summary Grounds of Resistance in CO/5929/2017



Reading between the lines Elizabeth Webster's Claim corresponds broadly to Ground C of my Claim CO/5050/2017.

Ms. Webster and those behind her have on several occasions refused me sight of their Claim documents so I can't currently make the substance of her Claim publicly available.

The secrecy surrounding the substance of Elizabeth Webster's Claim puzzles me. Surely she should be making such documents publicly available at the earliest opportunity to inform those who might donate to her cause?

A request has been made to the Administrative Court Office for access to the documents in CO/5929/2017 so I hope to post documents relating to Elizabeth Webster's Claim in due course.


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