The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: Principles, Powers and Parliaments

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Programme

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and introduction

Professor Anand Menon, Director, ESRC UK in a Changing Europe

9.35 The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: Overview

The Government’s approach

• Daniel Denman, Director, Legal Advisors, Department for Exiting the EU

Legislating for Brexit: the issues

• Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Anniversary Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London

10.45 Delegated Powers

• Chair: Dr Ruth Fox, Director and Head of Research, Hansard Society
• Michael P. Clancy OBE, Director, Law Reform, Law Society of Scotland
• Professor Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge; Legal Adviser, House of Lords Constitution Committee
• Lord Lisvane, Member, House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee; former Clerk of the House of Commons

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Rights and Enforcement

• Chair: Marie Demetriou QC, Brick Court Chambers
• Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law, Cambridge University, and ESRC UK in a Changing Europe
• Martha Spurrier, Director, Liberty

14.00 Devolution

• Chair: Professor Dan Wincott, Professor of Law and Society, Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University
• Professor Colin Harvey, Professor of Human Rights Law, Queen’s University Belfast, and ESRC UK in a Changing Europe
• Dr Jo Hunt, Reader in Law, Cardiff University, and ESRC UK in a Changing Europe
• Professor Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory, Edinburgh University, and ESRC UK in a Changing Europe; Legal Adviser, House of Lords Constitution Committee

15.15 Tea

15.30 Parliamentary Perspectives

• Chair: Professor Richard Rawlings, Professor of Public Law, University College London, and Honorary Distinguished Professor, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University

A panel (subject to parliamentary business) including:

• Hilary Benn MP, Chair, House of Commons Committee on Exiting the EU (Labour)
• Sir Bill Cash MP, previous Chair, House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee (Conservative)
• Joanna Cherry QC MP, Member, House of Commons Committee on Exiting the EU (SNP)
• Dr Stephen Farry MLA, Deputy Leader and Brexit spokesman, Alliance Party
• Eluned Morgan AM, Baroness Morgan of Ely, Member, National Assembly for Wales External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee (Labour)

The event is funded by the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe initiative, and co-convened by Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre and the Hansard Society.

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