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UK-EU: Opting out of EU Criminal law: What is actually involved? by Alicia Hinarejos, J.R. Spencer and Steve Peers

08 October 2012

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"Protocol 36 to the Lisbon Treaty gives the UK the right to opt out en bloc of all the police and criminal justice measures adopted under the Treaty of Maastricht ahead of the date when the Court of Justice of the EU at Luxembourg will acquire jurisdiction in relation to them. The government is under pressure to use this opt-out in order to “repatriate criminal justice”.

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