Prorogation in a sentence

Here she is giving Simon Hughes what for after he took forever and a day to make a point a about the prorogation of parliament.

Johnson has misled or lied to every newspaper editor, party leader and wife he’s known, and even to the Queen, over that prorogation decision.

Council will begin a six-week prorogation at the end of this week.

Although prorogation may have hit pause on parliamentary proceedings, it has no direct impact on the day-to-day business of government, including the end-of-summer ministerial touring schedule.

Firstly, these applications were pending since 2012 and 2103, long before the prorogation of Parliament.

Known as the ‘Beyonce of the law’, Supreme Court Judge Lady Brenda Hale became a household name last year when she ruled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament to be unlawful.

Meanwhile, the Liberal government became embroiled in a political scandal over a student grant program followed by the resignation of its finance minister and the prorogation of Parliament.

Parliament was, however, re-opened on 21 April 2020 after Mr Thabane's own All Basotho Convention (ABC) party and others successfully challenged the prorogation in the Constitutional Court.

And he refused to rule out the prospect of a second prorogation.

An FAQ on the Lok Sabha website defines ‘prorogation’ as “the termination of a Session of the House by an order made by the President under Article 85(2)(a) of the Constitution.

But a separate legal bid in Scotland to order a temporary halt to prorogation has been dismissed by a judge.

But in Scotland, a cross-party group of MPs and peers won a ruling from the Inner House of the Court of Session that Mr Johnson's prorogation decision was unlawful because it was "motivated by the improper purpose of stymieing Parliament".

But Women's Aid has now demanded a "clear, public commitment" that the legislation will be brought back after prorogation.

Depending on what the court says, “it would still be open or not open to the prime to consider a further prorogation”, they said.

First, while prorogation is usually for a few days, the Prime Minister asked for a nearly five-week suspension, from September 10 until October 13.

Gina Miller, the businesswoman who took one of the cases that led to the Supreme Court ruling the government's prorogation of Parliament unlawful, has said she was subjected to "disturbing" verbal abuse while walking with her daughter.

He added: "That date, as was originally set out, required prorogation to take place.

He argued that prorogation did not just stop MPs from sitting in the House of Commons, but prevented it from carrying out other functions such as putting questions to ministers.

He found that the PM's advice to HM the Queen on prorogation was, as a matter of high policy and political judgment, non-justiciable; the decision to proffer the advice was not able to be assessed against legal standards by the courts.

He said a previous court hearing had been misled by government lawyers who had said the issue of prorogation was merely an academic matter.