Spectator live blog: The Supreme Court’s Brexit hearing, day four

The Supreme Court’s landmark case on triggering Article 50 has now finished. We’ll have to wait until January to hear the verdict of the 11 judges involved. But for now you can follow all the main events as they unfolded on our Spectator live blog: 4.20pm: It’s all over at the Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger rounds off proceedings by making it clear that the judges are ‘not being asked to overturn the referendum’. Before his comments, Eadie attempted to knock down Pannick’s view that the 2015 referendum act had political, rather than legal, significance. Not so, said Eadie, who insisted that the Government thought the act ‘speaks volumes about the intention of Parliament’ and that ‘it left the royal prerogative power to give notice’ with ministers rather than MPs.

3.30pm: James Eadie QC now has his final opportunity to put forward the argument for the Government’s appeal. He makes the point that the statute that brought Britain into what would later become the EU – the 1972 European Communities Act – was not about limiting the power of the Government’s prerogative.