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NLJ this week: Retained EU Law Bill ‘the worst I can remember’

16 December 2022
Issue: 8007 / Categories: Legal News , EU , Brexit
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‘It’s one of the worst pieces of legislation I can remember in some 60 years of following the law-making process,’ Professor Michael Zander KC writes in this week’s NLJ.

In the second part of his article on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, Prof Zander, NLJ columnist and Emeritus Professor, LSE, sets out the many reasons for opposing the Bill.

These include the ‘cliff-edge sunsetting’ on 31 December 2023 of all remaining retained EU law. It is ‘fanciful’, he writes, to believe government departments have the resources to assess the thousands of legislative items concerned within that time. The Public Bill Committee has so far received 98 pieces of written evidence—‘overwhelmingly critical’. 

Read the full article here, and find Part 1 here.

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