Barbara Hewson looks at an ECJ ruling on state liability.
Barbara Hewson is a barrister at 12 Gray’s Inn Square. On 23 May, in Hedley Lomas (Ireland) v MAFF [C-5/94], the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered another landmark ruling on the liability of member states over infringement of their community obligations. This was another article 177 reference from a British court, seeking clarification of […]