Top U.K. Court Won't Tell Government How to Word Brexit Bill
- Supreme Court says it won’t help with phrasing of document
- Any interference would be “inappropriate,” top judge says
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The head of the U.K. Supreme Court said the judges won’t assist British lawmakers with the wording of the legal document they need to pass before Brexit can happen next year.
“We do not see it as our job to tell government what we would like to see specifically in wording in a piece of legislation,” the president of the Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, told a parliamentary committee Wednesday. It would be “inappropriate for the separation of powers.”