What is Brexit?

What is Brexit The word of Brexit used as a short way of saying that England is leaving the EU combine the words Britain and exit to get Brexit.Britain is leaving the EU because;  A referendum was held on Thursday, 23 June 2016 to decide whether the UK should remain or remain in the European … Read more

What impact would Brexit have on the importance of EU law in the English legal system?

Evaluate the current or present importance of EU law within the sources of the English Legal System. What impact would Brexit have on this importance? [20 marks] 04.11.2018 One of the main sources within the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) legal system is EU law. EU law has sovereignty over other sources of the UK’s legal system. … Read more

UK’s negotiation of withdrawal from the EU

06.05.2019 INTRODUCTION On 1 January 1973, the United Kingdom became a member of the European Economic Community. On that date, EEC law took effect as part of the domestic law of the United Kingdom, in accordance with the European communities’ act 1972.In December 2015, the UK Parliament passed the European referendum act 2015 and on … Read more

EU-wide laws on financial services and Brexit

The United Kingdom acceded to the European Economic Community in 1973, an organisation that has gradually evolved into the European Union that we know today. Concurrent with the evolution of the European Community has been the transformation of the very nature of the British economy, from a largely production-based one in the first half of … Read more

What will happen to the fundamental rights of UK and EU citizens living in the UK?

22.02.2019 In 2013, recognizing a mistrust of the British people towards Europe, the British Prime Minister David Cameron committed to hold a referendum on a possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, if his party won the parliamentary elections in 2015. However, the Tories won. Cameron campaigned for his country’s continued membership … Read more

The impossibility of Brexit restoring Parliamentary Sovereignty

The United Kingdom’s entrance into the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 by virtue of the Treaty of Accession 1972 has positioned the UK courts in the throes of a power struggle between clashing doctrines of EU Law Supremacy and Parliamentary Sovereignty (PS). The European Communities Act (ECA) 1972 was enacted to incorporate Community law … Read more