Well even the BBC agrees with me much to my surprise.

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The financial businesses are impacted by the political environment, which is all I am talking about. London as a financial centre won't disappear but it's significance as a gateway to the EU will, and it's importance will diminish. Leaving the EU does nothing to help the city. The language is irrelevant these days. You hear more English in a Frankfurt restaurant than German, and often better spoken too! If the talent goes then it won't be there anymore! The centre will be elsewhere. Not overnight, but in a few years.

The financial businesses are impacted by the political environment, which is all I am talking about. London as a financial centre won't disappear but it's significance as a gateway to the EU will, and it's importance will diminish. Leaving the EU does nothing to help the city. The language is irrelevant these days. You hear more English in a Frankfurt restaurant than German, and often better spoken too! If the talent goes then it won't be there anymore! The centre will be elsewhere. Not overnight, but in a few years.

There is a reason that London is a financial hub and that is time zone, if the issue of passporting can be sorted I can't see the financial hub moving from London because where money is involved the big banks would have been leaving in droves already in my opinion if there was any hint of a threat to profits.

I am surprised you don't know! It's:-

International Court of Justice
Peace Palace
Carnegieplein 2
2517 KJ The Hague
The Netherlands

The Judges are drawn from jurisdictions across the UN, including the UK. The way they are appointed can be found here:- [Link]

The jurisdiction of the Court is wide. This extract appears to apply to the current discussion, although I am no lawyer:-

c) Compulsory jurisdiction in legal disputes

The Statute provides that a State may recognize as compulsory, in relation to any other State accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in legal disputes. Such cases are brought before the Court by means of written applications. The nature of legal disputes in relation to which such compulsory jurisdiction may be recognized are listed in Article 36, paragraphs 2-5, of the Statute, which read as follows:

“2. The States parties to the present Statute may at any time declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other State accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes concerning:

a) the interpretation of a treaty;
b) any question of international law;
c) the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation;
d) the nature or extent of the reparation to be made for the breach of an international obligation.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (13 Nov 2020 10.59am)

Like Switzerland then? Or not? U.K. didn’t join the Eurozone, London didn’t suffer. Leaving the EU, London doesn’t need to suffer either. And London has more to offer with its arts and entertainment and English education than the square mile.