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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I would prefer much more straight forward UK legislation where it is needed. EU legislation is incredibly complex. So much so that even lawyers struggle with it and are not at all sure which way cases will go.
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Yeah, that's the thing I did not have a gauge on - the WTD has had to go to the CJEU for clarification as discussed in the article Pierre posted but what I don't have is information on whether this is more or less than other laws, both EU ones and UK.
Clearly we do have this situation in the UK, hence case/common law following on from statute law. If laws were watertight, there would be no case/common law and this clearly isn't what happens.
There is a layer of complexity where EU law in translated in to local legislation and the cases in that paper seemed to be around deficiencies in that translation due to lack of clarity in the initial directive. I would be interested to see if there was any evidence that local laws are simpler by definition than EU ones.
There's an interesting article on the complexity of laws including the influence of EU law here -
https://assets.publishing.service.go..._8April_AP.pdf