Not sure if I would have put it that way Fennel. The lawyers are nicely careful about their wording. The courts job is to decide if the proroguing of parliament was lawful. The first step in this is to decide if this is a matter of law - on which they can pronounce, or a matter of politics on which they can't.
It is not, as you put it, whether it is "an exception from the principle that law courts can't get involved in political matters?"
Putting it like that makes it sound as if the are partial in a particular way. They are concerned with the law.
If it is justiciable then they need to decided on the finding of the Scottish case and the English case.
I would suggest anyone who believes our judiciary is becoming politicised should watch some of the case.
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