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Blog posts written by Jack Williams on the topic of the content of retained EU law have been extensively cited and discussed by the UK Supreme Court in its recent judgment in Lipton v BA Cityflyer Ltd [2024] UKSC 24.
Although ultimately taking a different analytical route, Lord Burrows (as part of the majority) kindly described those posts as “carefully and tightly reasoned”. Lord Sales and Lady Rose (with whom Lady Simler agreed) likewise discussed the blog posts, albeit again reaching a different view after engagement with them. Lord Lloyd-Jones, dissenting, also cited the blog posts, but this time tracked and agreed with the reasoning in them.
Despite the differences in approach, it is most gratifying and encouraging that the Justices of the Supreme Court read and engaged so extensively with blog posts published on Monckton Chambers’ UK-EU Relations law blog, available here.
The judgment can be found here and the relevant blog posts are here and here.