§ Mr. Waltersasked the Lord Advocate whether Great Britain's entry to the Common Market will affect the position of Scots law.
§ The Lord AdvocateThe position of Scots law as a system of law with a distinctive identity and special characteristics should not, in my view, be altered in any material way by Britain's entry into the Common Market. Clearly a number of changes in certain areas of law relating to financial and commercial matters would be an immediate result of entry, and other changes in these and other areas would no doubt follow in the longer term as a result of continuing negotiation and agreement with other member States. But whatever changes there may be in matters such as these,140W the general principles of our domestic law relating, for example, to husband and wife, parent and child, succession, property, reparation and crime would, as far as can presently be foreseen, remain unchanged.