The government’s intention to enact legislation that breaks international law is just the latest example of ‘perfidious Albion’, barrister Mark Engelman, of Hardwicke chambers, writes in NLJ
The Internal Market Bill may be a particularly brash example, but ‘alleged acts of diplomatic sleights, duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to perceived promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states)’ are nothing new, Engelman says―the UK (or England prior to 1707) have been at it for centuries.
He cites other examples of law-breaking, including the UK’s reverse-turn on the unified patent earlier this year, despite a court for patent cases being set up in London.
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