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Tuesday 24 March 18:30 - 20:30
The Anatomy Lecture Theatre
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
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Transnational Justice Lecture: Aidan O'Neill QC On 'The Continuation of Politics by Other Means? - Strategic Litigation in the Shadow of Brexit'
Business & Professional
The Continuation of Politics by Other Means? -
Strategic Litigation in the Shadow of Brexit
Mr Aidan O'Neill QC (Scot) QC
Member, Matrix Chambers, London and Ampersand, Edinburgh
Aidan O’Neill QC is a barrister and Queen’s Counsel in both England and Scotland (“double silk”). He is a member of Matrix Chambers, London and of Ampersand, Edinburgh. He is ranked among the top ten counsel in the UK in terms of number of appearances before the UK Supreme Court. In addition to his work in employment/equality law and human rights, he has a wide-ranging European, constitutional and public law practice both north and south of the border in consistently ground-breaking cases.
Particular highlights in the last year include his December 2018 victory before the Full Court (25 judges) of the European Court of Justice in the case of Wightman and others in which the CJEU ruled that, as a matter of EU law, it remains open to the United Kingdom at any time while the Treaties continue to apply to it, unilaterally to revoke its notification of its intention to withdraw from the European Union.
In September 2019 Aidan appeared before the 11 judge bench of the UK Supreme Court in Cherry/Miller 2 representing over 70 MPs from across the UK and persuaded that court unanimously to uphold the ruling of the Inner House of the Court of Session that the Prime Minister’s advice to the Queen that she prorogue Parliament for five weeks in the run up to the then Brexit day of 31 October 2019, was unlawful (making the resulting Order in Council null and void).
In October 2019 Aidan’s petition to the nobile officium of the Court of Session for Dale Vince and others ensured that the Prime Minister duly complied with his obligations under the Benn Act to request and accept from the European Council an extension to the period within which the United Kingdom remains a full EU Member State.
Aidan was previously a teaching fellow at Princeton and Edinburgh universities. He is the author of substantial academic articles, blog posts and legal practitioner textbooks.
Particular highlights in the last year include his December 2018 victory before the Full Court (25 judges) of the European Court of Justice in the case of Wightman and others in which the CJEU ruled that, as a matter of EU law, it remains open to the United Kingdom at any time while the Treaties continue to apply to it, unilaterally to revoke its notification of its intention to withdraw from the European Union.
In September 2019 Aidan appeared before the 11 judge bench of the UK Supreme Court in Cherry/Miller 2 representing over 70 MPs from across the UK and persuaded that court unanimously to uphold the ruling of the Inner House of the Court of Session that the Prime Minister’s advice to the Queen that she prorogue Parliament for five weeks in the run up to the then Brexit day of 31 October 2019, was unlawful (making the resulting Order in Council null and void).
In October 2019 Aidan’s petition to the nobile officium of the Court of Session for Dale Vince and others ensured that the Prime Minister duly complied with his obligations under the Benn Act to request and accept from the European Council an extension to the period within which the United Kingdom remains a full EU Member State.
Aidan was previously a teaching fellow at Princeton and Edinburgh universities. He is the author of substantial academic articles, blog posts and legal practitioner textbooks.
This lecture forms part of the research and public engagement work taking place at CTLS this year.
A reception with wine and soft drinks follows the lecture.
