Call for a non-partisan Brexit

The ‘independent and non-political’ Law Commission could play a key role in Brexit, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas has said. Giving the Scarman Lecture at Gray’s Inn this week,

Lord Thomas said the task of scrutinising and amending large parts of the law as a result of Brexit was ‘enormous in scale’.

Therefore, ‘in the years to come, when so much Parliamentary time will be occupied by Brexit-related matters of a political nature, it would be sensible for there to be more use made of procedures which facilitate the enactment of legislation which is non-partisan’.