From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge
on the
single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European
issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven
largely by British politics.
Conflicts
issues are (
largely) untethered from the merits yet can be outcome determinative, so it is crucial to understand and focus
on choice - of - law principles in complex insurance disputes, which can yield the application of different state laws within a
single case to
issues of contract formation, performance, and bad faith.