After last week’s votes in the Commons on Thursday, the Prime Minister will put her withdrawal deal to the Commons for a third time on Tuesday. If it is passed she will ask the Council of Ministers of the EU for an extension until 30 June. If it is rejected she will ask for a longer extension and the UK will participate in the election of MEPs on 23 May.
Any extension requires unanimous agreement from all 27 Member States. There is a possibility that this may not be obtained in which case 29 March remains ‘exit day’ – or does it? Watch this space for ferocious times in Parliament in the final week before ‘exit day’ for a motion calling on the government to revoke the article 50 notice – and then to give the EU a further article 50 notice? Interesting discussion of the legalities of this can be found at http://goodlegaladvice.co.uk/?p=12486
After Speaker Bercow’s decision this afternoon not to allow the government to bring back its defeated motion of last week for a second time, we may soon be hearing about the ‘p’ word – prorogue.
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Professor Simon Baughen
Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in September 2013 (previously Reader at the University of Bristol Law School). Simon Baughen studied law at Oxford and practised in maritime law for several years before joining academia. His research interests lie mainly in the field of shipping law, but also include the law of trusts and the environmental law implications of the activities of multinational corporations in the developing world. Simon's book on Shipping Law, has run to seven editions (soon to be eight) and is already well-known to academics and students alike as by far the most learned and approachable work on the subject. Furthermore, he is now the author of the very well-established practitioner's work Summerskill on Laytime. He has an extensive list of publications to his name, including International Trade and the Protection of the Environment, and Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs - Closing the Governance Gap. He has also written and taught extensively on commercial law, trusts and environmental law. Simon is a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, a University Research Centre within the School of Law, and he currently teaches at Swansea on the LLM in:Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air; Charterparties Law and Practice; International Corporate Governance.
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