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Several years ago colleagues and I debated whether contracts should henceforth specify 'English law' rather than the traditional 'law of England and Wales.' At the time there was precious little Welsh specific law, and what there was was concerned with specifically Welsh matters, but we could see this developing differently in the future. We decided to make no change - yet.

If this proposal goes ahead, it will lend impetus to a change in choice of law clauses, because inevitably a codified Welsh law, even if on enactment it replicates a UK law, will diverge in meaning and interpretation. I am at a loss to understand why this could be thought to be a good idea.