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Supreme Court judges reserve Brexit case ruling until new year

The UK Government faces a wait until next year to find out whether it has won its Brexit challenge at the UK's highest court.

At the completion of four days of detailed legal argument, 11 Supreme Court justices reserved their ruling until the new year.

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MPs have already voted for Brexit, Government argues

James Eadie is making the final arguments at the Supreme Court.

The House of Commons have given Theresa May a clear order to trigger Brexit, the Government's lawyer has argued to the Supreme Court.

James Eadie argued that yesterday's motion passed by a clear majority of MPs was highly relevant as it included a call to trigger Article 50 by the end of next March.

He is arguing that Mrs May should be allowed to use executive powers to take the UK out of the bloc.

He said the motion on a Brexit timetable "in effect..indicates the view of the House".

No doubt it isn’t legally binding but that doesn’t mean it isn’t legally relevant.

It provides the sharpest of focuses on the nature of the issues now in play because Parliament has given, or the House of Commons at least has given, specific approval to the Government to give that notice and indeed has called on them to do so by a particular date.

– James Eadie

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