Barristers have launched a public relations drive to explain to school children why judges are not the “enemies of the people”, following the High Court’s ruling on Brexit.

A resource pack, which will be sent out to all secondary schools in the country next week, will help teachers educate secondary school pupils about the judiciary's role in the democratic process.

High Court judges were dubbed the “enemies of the people” after they ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May cannot trigger Article 50 – the formal two-year process for leaving the EU – without a vote by Parliament.

The initiative has been launched on the day that the UK's highest court is due to give its ruling on the Government's Brexit challenge.