ABSTRACT
The United Kingdom (UK) government initiated that process in March 2017, with the effect that the UK will be expected to have left the EU by the summer of 2019. The fact that the UK intends to leave the European Union does not mean that current EU institutions, procedures and laws are no longer applicable and can be ignored: they are binding on the UK as long as it remains a member of the EU and students of UK business law must be aware of them and their effects on UK law. It is also essential to distinguish between the two different courts that operate within the European context: the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), formerly the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which is the court of the EU, sitting in Luxembourg; and the ECtHR, which deals with cases relating to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and sits in Strasbourg.
