Motion filed asking the Court of Session to suspend the Prime Minister's request

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1. Also: Gina Miller's lawyers apply to challenge Boris Johnson plan

Lawyers for the campaigner Gina Miller have made an urgent application to the high court for a judicial review of Boris Johnson’s plan to prorogue parliament, in the first shot in what will be an intense battle in the coming days to torpedo the prime minister’s plan.

“This is a brazen attempt, of truly historical magnitude, to prevent the executive being held accountable for its conduct before parliament,” said Miller, who first rose to prominence in 2016 when she brought a legal case that forced parliament to legislate before article 50 could be invoked.

And in a separate legal challenge, lawyers seeking to reverse the move to prorogue parliament hope a Scottish court will speed up its process of deciding whether the measure is unconstitutional and illegal, making its decision early next week.

Miller said she had received legal correspondence from government legal officers in the last two weeks stating that the issue of prorogation was of no more than “academic” interest. She said this now proved that Johnson has misled the nation.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/28/gina-millers-lawyers-apply-to-challenge-boris-johnson-plan