“Lord Denning famously referred to EU law (then EEC law) as an incoming tide, flowing into the United Kingdom’s estuaries and up the rivers, unable to be held back once Parliament had opened or circumvented the floodgates by means of the European Communities Act 1972 (the ‘1972 Act’). More recently, the Supreme Court adapted the analogy: the incoming tide flowed not across the channel, but only because of, and down, carefully-construed domestic ‘conduit pipes’ in the 1972 Act …” (more)
[Jack Williams, EU Relations Law, 28 December]
First posted 2020-12-29 11:51:11
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