[pp.int.general] La Quadrature du Net: Amendment 138 dead by lack of courage of the Parliament

[Amelia Andersdotter]

2009/10/23 Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 at gmail.com>

> Does the treaty of Lisbon have any effect on this?
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>

For the UK in particular, the EU at large has meant a massive influx of
legislation. Up until the early 1990s the UK government passed about 18
legislative acts per year, after 1997 more than a thousand.

But this is because of the clash between Napoleonic/Germanic law and the
Common Law systems: Common Law is based on case law, whereas the rest of
Europe relies on legislative acts (that  are of course also interpreted in
case law).

The Lisbon Treaty will likely force the UK to continue passing legislative
acts, unless they give directives direct effect (presumably) in UK courts.
However, legislative acts aren't necessarily a bad thing: for one, it is
easier for me as a citizen to look of the state regulations on sewers than
try to locate sewer-related case law in the official journal of the high
court.



>
> - Nicolas
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>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM, El Tres <pirat at eltres.de> wrote:
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>> Am 23.10.2009 um 00:16 schrieb Eric Priezkalns <
>> eric.priezkalns at pirateparty.org.uk>:
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>>> [UK]   A constitution may exist, even if it is unwritten.  Such a
>>> constitution may be stronger than one written on a piece of paper, but where
>>> people don't do what the words on the paper say.
>>>
>>>
>> Hear, Hear!
>>
>> El Tres
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