"The Court will accordingly make an Order declaring that the Prime Minister's advice to HM the Queen and the prorogation which followed thereon was unlawful and is thus null and of no effect."
Lord Doherty's ruling said the determination of unlawfulness was based on the assessment that Mr Johnson's act had been a"tactic to frustrate Parliament". Parliament was prorogued, or suspended, on Monday until 14 October, a move opponents argued was designed to thwart their attempts to scutinise his plans for leaving the European Union and allow him to push through a no-deal Brexit."We are calling for parliament to be recalled immediately," Scottish National Party lawmaker Joanna Cherry told Sky News after the verdict by Scotland's Inner Court of Session on Wednesday.
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