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Opinion Rumour Dissolves

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Rumour yesterday - that the Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordon had been leaked to the Department for Exiting the EU in Westminster (which rumour suggested that the unilateral consent of the EU Council would be required for the UK to reverse its decision to leave the EU) - has been proved simply that; a rumour.

Instead the A-G's Opinion is quite different:

Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona proposes that the Court of Justice should declare that Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU

The Opinion of an A-G does not have the legal effect that the subsequent decision of the Court of Justice of the EU will have, nor is the Opinion binding on the Court but the A-G's Opinion does usually point to the Court's likely approach in due course.

Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-621/18 Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2018-12/cp180187en.pdf


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