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Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

A space to ask one big question about one big story every weekday.

Today what's happening?

Today, what's happening in the Supreme Court?

Two weeks ago, I doubt many of us could have named a case heard in the Supreme Court or

any of the people in it. Well now it's the focus of the Brexit drama. It's the top court in the UK and tomorrow we'll hear the

judge's ruling on whether Boris Johnson's decision to shut down Parliament ahead

of next month's Brexit deadline was legal or not.

Scottish judges have already said it was unlawful.

The live stream of the first day of the Supreme Court hearing last week

got more than 4 million views so this is effectively the World Cup

final of constitutional law. Whichever side you're supporting it's a drama the

BBC's Dominic Caciano's been pitchside all

week but for some reason he prefers a Star Trek analogy there's an episode of

Star Trek there's probably 10 episodes of Star Trek where the

warp drive's broken and the enterprise is drifting into this great big cloud nebula

and they don't know what's in there, what's awaiting them. They've got no idea and no idea whether to go forward or

go backwards, you reboot the warp drive. We are at that moment in

constitutional terms because we literally don't know what's before us.

What are the possible outcomes tomorrow?

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