May Dealt Brexit Setback as Article 50 Sent to EU Highest Court

  • EU Court of Justice to decide if Article 50 can be reversed
  • May has no plan to revoke Brexit, U.K. government says

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Scottish judges have asked the European Union’s highest court to urgently consider whether the U.K. government’s Brexit process can be reversed.

The European Court of Justice should decide whether the Article 50 notification, which formally triggered the withdrawal process, can “unilaterally be revoked,” Judge Colin Sutherland, the most senior judge in Scotland, said in a ruling Friday.