Law of the United Kingdom

There is no single law structure of the United Kingdom, rather, it has three distinctly different legal systems, each of which derives from a particular geographical area for a variety of historical reasons: English law (in the joint jurisdiction of England and Wales), Scots law and Northern Ireland law. As a result, there is no single unified legal system of the United Kingdom as a result of the continuation of the separate legal systems of England (and Wales), Scotland and Northern Ireland. In fulfilment of its former EU treaty obligations, European Union directives had been transposed into the UK legal system on an ongoing basis by the UK parliament.

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