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On 22 September 2022, the government introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022 to Parliament. Previously referred to as the ‘Brexit Freedoms Bill’, the legislation is intended to ‘put the UK statute book on a more sustainable footing’ post-Brexit, by ending the special status of retained EU law under UK law. Announcing the Bill, the government noted that retained EU Law ‘was never intended to sit on the statute book indefinitely’. Accordingly, the Bill makes provision for abolishing the special status of retained EU law in UK law from the end of 2023 and will enable the government to specify, amend, repeal and replace retained EU law more easily via secondary legislation. The Bill contains provisions on sunsetting the majority of retained EU law, ending the principle of supremacy of retained EU law and associated EU law principles in UK law, creating a new category of ‘assimilated law’, facilitating departures from retained EU case law, allowing easier modification of retained EU legislation, and further powers relating to EU...