Prisoner voting: Government urges judges to uphold ban 11 June 2013 Last updated at 14:24 The government's top legal adviser has urged judges to reject the appeals of two convicted murderers fighting for the right to vote while in prison. Attorney General Dominic Grieve said the Supreme Court could depart from European judgements and "take its own course" as prisoners Peter Chester and George McGeoch challenge a voting ban. Strasburg has said a blanket ban on serving prisoners voting is unlawful. In a two-day Supreme Court hearing, seven law lords are considering whether European Union (EU) law gives convicted prisoners the right to vote in local and national elections and European parliamentary elections. Mr Grieve said the case raised "constitutional questions." Urging the judges to reject the pair's appeal he said there were "important questions as to the proper respective roles of the courts and of Parliament in settling issues surrounding the right to vote of convicted prisoners." Take own course The court said individual countries could decide which inmates should be denied the right to vote but that an all-out ban was illegal. The government has outlined three options - keeping the existing blanket ban, giving the vote to convicted prisoners serving up to six months or giving it to those serving up to four years. Mr Grieve told the judges the proposed Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Draft Bill was being scrutinised by Parliament. He said the appeals of Chester and McGeoch raised "broader constitutional questions" for the future of laws setting out who is and who is not eligible to vote. A spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said he was asking the judges to think about their role in the case and consider whether it should be the courts or parliament who decide on prisoner voting. Prime Minister David Cameron has said the idea of giving prisoners the vote makes him "sick." "No-one should be under any doubt - prisoners are not getting the vote under this government," he told MPs in October. The Supreme Court hearing comes days after a committee of Scottish politicians threw out a bid by two MSPs to give prisoners the chance to vote in next year's Scottish independence referendum.