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Harmonisation of Law in the European Economic Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

B. A. Wortley
B. A. Wortley
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University of Manchester
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If the United Kingdom enters the Common Market, then it will bring to its membership two Common Law countries, England (including Wales) and Northern Ireland; it will also bring with it a Civil Law country—Scotland. It may well be that Scottish lawyers may find a new function for themselves as go-betweens, for they should be able to interpret Continental Civil Law to Common Lawyers, for Scottish terminology is closer than the English to the continental phraseology.

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 9 , Issue 4: Special Issue: De Conflictu Legum, Essays Presented to RD Kollewijn and J Offerhaus , October 1962 , pp. 529 - 536
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1962

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page 529 note 1. The position of certain European countries other than the Six in the event of the U.K. joining E.E.C., Strasbourg 1961, p. 44.

page 530 note 2. So far as the European Free Trade Association is concerned, the Outer Seven, to which the U.K. belongs, there is no specific mention in the Stockholm Treaty of the unification or harmonisation of the Law of Member States, though by Article 32 of that Treaty, the Council of that Association may, by unanimous vote, make recommendations about promoting the objectives of the Association, and this might involve changing the law.

page 531 note 3. Our italics.

page 532 note 1. See next page.

page 535 note 1. When unanimity or a qualified majority is not specified, a majority vote will suffice, Art. 148 (1).

page 535 note 2. See articles 189, and 27 for example.