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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/04/14 15:22, Francis Davey wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-08 14:10 GMT+01:00 Peter
Fairbrother <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">eg: <a
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href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/08/us-eu-data-ruling-idUSBREA370F02014040"
target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/08/us-eu-data-ruling-idUSBREA370F02014040</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/european_court_of_justice_says_data_retention_directive_is_invalid/"
target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/european_court_of_justice_says_data_retention_directive_is_invalid/</a><br>
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href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26935096"
target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26935096</a><br>
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Can anyone help explain what this means?<br>
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<div>I haven't had to deal with this sort of question before
and I haven't had time to research the point: what is the
effect of the invalidation of an EU directive on UK
implementing regulations under s.2(2) of the European
Communities Act and in particular is that effect
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<div>My assumption was that the regulations would be
automatically ultra vires and therefore of no effect
prospectively (with no real idea what happens
retrospectively) but I haven't stumbled on a clear
statement of principle anywhere. Various lists (of
lawyers) I am on haven't come up with anything better. The
answer is probably clear if I had time to investigate (for
a fee...). <br>
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...or could just picket the Home Office, David Blunkett and Charles
Clarke, chanting "You lost, you lost,.."<br>
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CB<br>
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