In the landmark legal decision in Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, the High Court ruled that the government cannot use the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 EU Treaty, and so leave the EU, without Parliament’s authority. Since that ruling was given, a flurry of commentary on it has appeared. Some of the commentary in the press has been highly critical and unpleasantly vitriolic in nature, leading to the (eventual) defence by the Lord Chancellor of the independence of the judiciary. Commentary in academia and the legal blogosphere has been much more measured but ever growing in quantity, as the many postings on the UK Constitutional Law blog reveal. This is unsurprising. For many, this is the constitutional case of its generation, and which constitutional lawyer worth their salt would not wish to make their contribution? Clearly, I am not hesitating to make a contribution…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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