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The Influence of European Community Law on Public Law in the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2017

Francis G. Jacobs
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It is a great privilege for me to give this lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart. I frequently had the privilege of appearing before him as counsel when he was judge at the European Court of Justice and also from 1984 to 1988 when he was President of the Court. It was on his departure from the Court in 1988 that I went to the Court as advocate general.

Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, who has long been interested in the influence of European Community law on public law in the United Kingdom, had recently published a paper entitled “Recent developments in English administrative law—the impact of Europe?” In returning to that theme this evening I should like to update the story of developments in English administrative law where there may be a European impact. I will also venture, perhaps over-ambitiously, to look briefly at the new constitutional reforms, and to see if there may be a European impact there too.

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Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , Volume 2 , 1999 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge 1999

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