This is odd - retained EU law does already have a clear legislative status in the UK system; it takes precedence over conflicting UK law unless and until government legislates to amend it. Presumably this 'supremacy' provision will be removed... 5/6
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So 'retained EU law' is going to be a thing of the past according to Lord Frost (). 1/6
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For non-lawyers, you may be scratching your head. 'Retained EU law' describes how EU regulations, implemented and unimplemented Directives, Treaty provisions, general principles of EU law and EU case law continue to have effect in the UK legal system post Brexit.2/6
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This was done to ensure a functioning statute book on 1 Jan 2021. Retained EU law is not a pretty thing and the statutory provisions (EU(Withdrawal) Act 2018) are complex. But the Act was widely agreed to be necessary. 3/6
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Now, according to Lord F, a legal system which is only 9 mths old is to be reconsidered: 'we intend to remove the special status of retained EU law, so that it is no longer a distinct category of UK domestic law, but normalised within our law, with a clear legislative status' 4/6
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.. but that creates its own problems which the 2018 Act was trying to avoid, an Act introduced under a Conservative government, albeit with a different PM. 6/6
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The alternative scenario is that retained EU law will simply cease to have effect...
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