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Originally Posted by Mick
I love how our Attorney General, cites in her Statement back to the EU that it was Gina Miller’s Supreme Court case that highlights that our parliament is sovereign and by saying this, that Miller herself has unwittingly become the Queen of Brexit. Cheers Gina.  |
Yes, the AGs statement indeed says that Parliament is sovereign and can therefore unilaterally negate any treaty it has signed through domestic legislation.
How this sits with Article 27 of the Vienna Convention;
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A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.
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I am not sure (note that this convention
might not apply with supranational organisations, this is not clear) I guess we can legislate to ignore that too.