The UK left the EU on 31st January 2020. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 will preserve the effect of all retained EU law as it stands at 31st December 2020, implementation period completion day. Retained EU law is an entirely new concept which raises many questions for practitioners, including:

• What is retained EU law?

• What legislation is retained? What happens if there is a conflict between EU law and domestic legislation?

• What case law is retained and is it binding? In what circumstances can the Courts depart from it?

• What does this mean for equality law and other aspects of worker’s rights?

This webinar aims to provide clarity on some of these complex questions.

Speakers:

Mr Aidan O’Neill, QC, Ampersand Advocates

Aidan O’Neill is Queen’s Counsel at the Scottish Bar and of the Bar of England and Wales. He has a wide ranging legal practice in both London and Edinburgh, with particular experience and expertise in commercial judicial review, environmental/Aarhus law and in employment/equality law. He is a specialist in EU law, in human rights law and in UK constitutional law. He was awarded the Legal 500 UK Bar Award for Scottish Silk of the year for 2020 and EU law Silk of the year in 2015 and Scottish Legal Awards 2017, 2018 and 2019 Silk of the year.

He is a highly experienced pleader before the top courts who has been Senior counsel in almost thirty cases to date from across the UK before the UK Supreme Court/ House of Lords, as well before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. He was previously a teaching fellow at Princeton and Edinburgh universities and is author of substantial academic articles, blog posts and legal practitioner texts.

Time will be allocated for Q+A.

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Retained EU Law: principles and implications for equality and worker rights