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Ministers ordered to pay £100m to Spanish fishermen
(Financial Times)
October 29, 1999
The government finally lost its 11-year legal battle with the Spanish fishing industry yesterday when the House of Lords ruled it must pay an estimated 100m compensation for illegally excluding the country's trawlers from UK waters.
The ruling ends a long-running constitutional conflict between European law and domestic legislation - with the UK government ...... Read more on Financial Times
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