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Mr Cockshutt, The laws and "rights" jeopardized by the referendum decision were not in any meaningful sense passed or conferred by Parliament in the first place. They were imposed by the EU. But even if they had been voluntarily conferred by parliament, parliament itself consented to their removal by passing the EU Referendum Act 2015, in the knowledge that a "Leave" vote would have that necessary consequence. So how has parliament been "by-passed"?

It is surely a plain statement of fact to say that the effect of the High Court judgment is to place back in parliament's hands the power to annul the referendum vote at its pleasure. If you disagree, please say why. And whatever you may mean by wishing for parliament to be "involved" in Brexit, that is not what the judges were determining in their decision last week.