On May 7, 11:51=A0pm, "John of Aix" wrote:
> I'm not so sure that the OP has confused it, for as he says, it was the
> UK government that signed the treaty of Rome and if the UK ceased to
> exist then it may well be possible that their adhesion become null and
> void.
No!
As you rightly say the UK government signed the treaty of Rome on
behalf of all the constituent parts of the UK.
If Scotland left the UK then by precedent it would initially inherit
all the laws (insofar as UK law applies in Scotland)and treaties
entered into by the UK as would the rest of the old Union. If this
were not the case then of course Scotland would begin its statehood
with huge gaps in its body of law and no treaty rights or protections
whatsoever. Clearly such a situation would be untenable.
Of course Scotland would be independent and one could reasonably
expect therefore over the years and decades following that inherited
union law would be gradually replaced and superceded.
I spoke of precedent. Even today, after all these years, colonial law
still features in the body of law within the 13 original British
colonies of the USoA. Of course after all this time, one would not
expect old British Colonial Law to feature highly in these states.
Nonetheless its vestiges still remain. |