In case you missed it, PEOPIL (The Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers) have published a position paper reflecting on the UK-EU Summit held in May 2025 as part of the UK-EU reset.
The paper sets out PEOPIL’s view that there is no legal basis for the EU’s refusal of the UK’s request to rejoin the Lugano Convention, highlights the limitations of the Hague Judgments Convention 2019 and calls for the UK’s accession to Lugano. It argues that only Lugano (or a bespoke bilateral UK-EU treaty) can recreate the significant protections afforded to individuals by the Brussels Recast Regime in order to redress the power imbalance between victims injured in foreign accidents and the relevant compensators.
The paper is available to PEOPIL members via the PEOPIL website (https://www.peopil.com/new-peopil-eu-uk-position-paper-now-live/) and also to non-members (via LinkedIn) here.
We are grateful to PEOPIL’s EU-UK Working Group for their work on this paper and for allowing us to share the paper on this blog.