In case you missed it, PEOPIL (The Pan-European Organisation of Private Harm Attorneys) have revealed a place paper reflecting on the UK-EU Summit held in Might 2025 as a part of the UK-EU reset.
The paper units out PEOPIL’s view that there isn’t any authorized foundation for the EU’s refusal of the UK’s request to rejoin the Lugano Conference, highlights the constraints of the Hague Judgments Conference 2019 and requires the UK’s accession to Lugano. It argues that solely Lugano (or a bespoke bilateral UK-EU treaty) can recreate the numerous protections afforded to people by the Brussels Recast Regime with a view to redress the ability imbalance between victims injured in international accidents and the related compensators.
The paper is accessible to PEOPIL members through the PEOPIL web site (https://www.peopil.com/new-peopil-eu-uk-position-paper-now-live/) and likewise to non-members (through LinkedIn) right here.
We’re grateful to PEOPIL’s EU-UK Working Group for his or her work on this paper and for permitting us to share the paper on this weblog.
