The British Supreme Court starts hearing the historic Brexit legal case to decide whether the British government can begin the process to pull Britain out of the European Union without parliament’s approval.
The government has insisted it has the power and authority to start the exit process by triggering article 50 of the lisbon treaty, the formal gateway for a member country to leave the EU.
British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to trigger article 50 by the end of March. But the high court ruled that May must get the parliament’s support to invoke the clause.
May’s government appealed against that ruling and the Supreme Court judges are expected to make a definitive decision in the coming days.
