A legal bid to force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit has failed

LONDON - A Scottish court has rejected a legal bid to force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit.

The Court of Session in Edinbrugh on Monday said that it was "neither necessary nor appropriate" to force the prime minister to seek from the European Union an extenstion to the Article 50 process.

A group of campaigners including Scottish National Party member of Parliament Joanna Cherry had asked the court to force Johnson to seek a Brexit delay in accordance with the Benn act recently passed by MPs.

The Benn act states that Johnson must ask the EU for another Brexit delay at the upcoming European Council summit should he fail to reach a new deal with Brussels and get it ratified in the House of Commons.

Despite this, Johnson has insisted that the United Kingdom will leave the EU on October 31.

His spokesperson reiterated this plegde on Monday morning.

However, the court in Scotland said "there can be no doubt that [prime minister] now accepts that he must comply with the requirements of the 2019 Act and has affirmed that he intends to do so."

Johnson avoided another defeat in the courts after the UK's Supreme Court last month ruled that the prime minister had acted illegally when he suspended Parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the October Brexit deadline.

Our Brexit Insider Facebook group is the best place for up-to-date news and analysis about Britain's departure from the EU, direct from Business Insider's political reporters. Join here.