Editors’ note: This is cross-posted from the Judicial Power Project website and forms the body of a short paper published today by the Project.
In a Judicial Power Project paper of 26 October, Terminating Treaty-based UK Rights, I argued that UK law and constitutional practice about double tax treaties provides a clear and uncontroversial parallel for the process whereby the Government, in the exercise of its prerogative (non-statutory) power in foreign affairs, will give notification under TEU art. 50 of the UK’s intent to leave the EU. This notification will be substantially identical to the notification that can be given by virtue of, say, art. 29 of the UK-Russia double tax treaty, which would result (after the time specified in the article) in the termination of the treaty and thereby the elimination of rights (quite numerous) that many UK citizens and others enjoy under UK statutory provisions dependent (for…
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