“You might know the laws that remain on the statute books but you won’t know how to interpret them,” said George Peretz KC, an expert on the issue. The government announced it will reduce the number of laws it was going to remove from the statute books but also said it will be scrapping the rule that sets out how laws are interpreted, effectively voiding precedents set by courts and tribunals up and down the country over the past 47 years. “Now all of a sudden they are throwing that out the window and fundamental rights are going to be deleted by this law.”Īt stake is the concept of “interpretive effect”, something the government refers to as the “supremacy of EU law”. “We did that to provide certainty,” she said. “It was a reckless piece of legislation from the start and it is still a reckless piece of legislation,” she added.ĭuhs, who specialises in data laws, previously worked with Dominic Raab to retain EU law when Brexit happened. “It is welcome, but there is still a precipice for rights, liabilities and powers. “The government’s change of approach reducing the number of laws is catching the headlines,” said Eleonar Duhs, partner at Bates Wells and one of the lawyers who worked on retaining EU law in the Brexit department.
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