Private International Law (PIL) contains principles and rules for dealing with particular cross-border legal disputes. Countries conclude international PIL agreements to ensure reciprocal treatment, avoid parallel legal proceedings and conflicting decisions for private litigants and streamline cross-border cooperation.
After decades of EU membership, where the UK has entered PIL agreements through its membership of the EU, the UK needs to provide for the implementation in domestic law the conventions Ministers wish the UK to continue to be bound by after the transition period ends. The UK also needs to create a process for the implementation in domestic law of future PIL agreements the UK will enter in its own right.
