In April/ May this year, the Law Society of Scotland carried out a survey of their In-house members in relation to their views and thoughts on the EU Referendum.
A selection of those responses include:
Positive
- ‘Freedom of movement of trade and people within the EU is a great bonus for in-house lawyers.’
- ‘The EU has been a source of a huge amount of positive labour legislation, consumer protection and sector specific rules in my sector (financial services). Being part of a wider group provides opportunities, influence and relative stability.’
- ‘My employer only exists because of the barrier-free EU.’
- ‘The EU has been the driving force for equality legislation.’
Negative
- ‘The laws which emanate from the EU have a stifling effect (through overly prescriptive regulation) on my organisation which is an SME.’
- ‘My perception is that the EU creates lots of ‘red tape’.’
- ‘Employment, data protection and procurement are highly lucrative areas for some lawyers, but as an in-house lawyer, for my client, these areas of European law are very complex and expensive to negotiate.’
- ‘We are over regulated and over represented.’
