REUL/Assimilated Law: the Current Rules(?): CELS Lunchtime Seminar

Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Speaker: Dr Julian Ghosh, Cambridge University

Abstract: In this seminar Dr Ghosh will address what, post-Lipton are the rules for REUL/AL; examples of UK Court decisions which should but do not apply REUL/AL and will provide a useful template for future litigation.

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https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series

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0:00.0	Well, good afternoon, everyone. So lovely to see you all at the first sales lunchtime seminar of the year. My name is Catherine Barnard, and I have a great pleasure to introduce you to Julian Gosh. Now, it's customer in these events to give a very long CV, but can we just say he's marvellous? He is a very distinguished
0:24.1	tax silk. He's a part-time judge, still. He's still judging. Yeah. And he's also most importantly
0:31.3	a brilliant supervisor and supervising across a range of subjects here at the university.
0:38.9	He's given a lot of thought to this subject because as a tax specialist, it has
0:44.3	particularly bitten in his field.
0:47.8	And so, Julian, the floor is yours, talk for about 25 minutes or so, and then we'll take a few questions. Sure. And wrap up sort of
0:57.3	about 10 to 5 to 2, so you can get your next appointment. So, Julie, the floor is yours. Thank you very
1:03.8	much. Thank you. I'm ready. Let's go, because what, I, and thank you, Catherine, for the introduction.
1:17.3	It's true, I have views on Britain D.U. Law. And I'm going to give you a series of effectively
1:26.9	bullet points. Some people define an expert as somebody who
1:29.6	knows what they're talking about and who has slides, no slides. So I'll tell you what the rules are,
1:38.7	and then I will tell you what I think about those rules in the sense of critiquing them.
1:46.1	And then absolutely, over to you.
1:50.9	But to fast forward, my big message is this.
1:55.4	There are good reasons for a UK university to be teaching EU law. But unless you're a tax lawyer, and I'm choosing
2:12.3	very carefully, in the sense that retained EU law absolutely has relevance to an employment lawyer,
2:22.6	your MP lawyer, you're an environmental lawyer, but unless you're a tax lawyer,
2:28.0	EU law proper and the retained EU law regime has less and less relevance to day-to-day practice day-on-day, year-on-year.
2:47.0	They throw up the regime, the retained EU law, it's now called a simulated
2:55.7	law regime, throws up big public law questions. And I'll mention them. But looking at the retained EU law regime in the 2018 Act, the legal relevance of that is becoming
3:18.5	more and more vanishingly small.
3:23.2	And I give you this as my view. You can let me know if you disagree, but I would
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