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  European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Schedule 1 - Retention of EU Law - Challenges - Retention of General Principles -
  
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  @ MP voted aye for there to be no right to challenge EU laws retained after the UK leaves the EU on the grounds the laws were invalid before the UK's withdrawal from the EU; for only EU general principles recognised by the European Court of Justice to form part of UK law after the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and for there to be no right to damages in respect of the UK's failure to transpose EU law into UK law.
  
  @ MP voted no not to prevent challenges to EU laws retained after the UK leaves the EU on the grounds the laws were invalid before the UK's withdrawal from the EU; against only EU general principles recognised by the European Court of Justice forming part of UK law after the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and against excluding the possibility of damages in respect of the UK's failure to transpose EU law into UK law.
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of:
  
  * There being no right in domestic law on or after exit day to challenge any retained EU law on the basis that, immediately before exit day, an EU instrument was invalid.
  
  * No general principle of EU law being part of domestic law on or after exit day if it was not recognised as a general principle of EU law by the European Court in a case decided before exit day 
  
  * There being no right in domestic law on or after exit day to damages in accordance with the rule in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francovich_v_Italy Francovich] (Liability in relation to a state's failure to transpose an EU directive into national law).
  
  MPs were considering the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill[1].
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the schedule be the First schedule to the Bill.
  
  The Schedule in question was Schedule 1[2].
  
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/europeanunionwithdrawal.html Parliament's webpage on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill]
  
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0005/cbill_2017-20190005_en_2.htm#sch1 Schedule 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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