‘Parents in the UK would find it “much more difficult” to recover abducted children if Britain fails to persuade the EU to continue legal cooperation after Brexit, according to government officials detailing their latest plans.’
The Guardian, 22nd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Justice minister Dominic Raab has conceded the UK would keep “half an eye” on rulings by the European Union’s highest court after Brexit as the government appeared to soften its stance on how heavily the bloc would influence UK law.’
The Guardian, 23rd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Britain will be subject to the rulings of European courts after Brexit, the government has conceded, in an apparent climbdown from its promise of judicial independence.’
The Guardian, 21st August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Theresa May’s Brexit strategy has been thrown into new doubt as a former head of the government’s legal services ridicules the prime minister’s claim that the UK can break free of all European laws while continuing to reap the economic benefits of the EU’s single market.’
The Guardian, 19th August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The country’s most senior judge has called for government guidance amid fears over legal precedents and the status of long-running cases.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government must offer some clarity on the judiciary’s relationship to the ECJ – because the Brexit bill itself is ambiguous, and will lead to uncertainty all round.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government must provide clarity on whether it wants UK courts to take into account rulings of the European court of justice after Brexit, one of Britain’s most senior judges has said.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘David Hart talks to Rosalind English about the likely impact of the European Withdrawal Bill, and in particular the concerns about the knock on effects it might have on existing environmental standards after BREXIT.’
Law Pod UK, 26th July 2017
Source: audioboom.com
‘Litigation costs are more favourable in the UK than elsewhere, the lord chief justice has said, outlining an optimistic view of the UK’s legal reputation post Brexit.’
Law Society's Gazette, 25th July 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The House of Lords’ EU Internal Market Sub-Committee has launched an inquiry into the implications of Brexit on UK competition policy.’
OUT-LAW.com, 25th July 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘At the present time, a large range of civil proceedings, especially in the commercial area, are governed by an EU measure, the Brussels I Regulation (Recast) of 2012. This applies whenever the defendant is domiciled in another EU country, whenever there is a choice-of-court agreement designating a court in the EU, and whenever an EU Member State has exclusive jurisdiction over a particular matter, for example title to land or registered intellectual-property rights. The Regulation also applies to the recognition and enforcement of judgments between different EU States.’
OUP Blog, 24th July 2017
Source: blog.oup.com
‘The UK government has published draft new legislation which is designed to transfer existing EU legislation to the UK statute book and give ongoing recognition to EU case law established before the UK leaves the EU.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th July 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘There could be a “technical flaw” in the way Article 50 was triggered which could make it vulnerable to a challenge in court, the National Assembly for Wales has been told.’
The Independent, 5th July 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Brexit will see Britain’s top judges prove they are the best in the world, the new Justice Secretary has insisted.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Ministers must work faster to ensure that after Brexit UK and EU court judgments are mutually recognised and enforced, the lord chief justice has urged.’
The Guardian, 5th July 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and Laura Phillips consider the Bar Council’s Brexit Working Group paper on environmental law, the publication of revised voluntary guidelines for issuing Green Bonds, and pledges by the Mayor of London for a ‘zero-emission’ city by 2050.’
Six Pump Court, 26th June 2017
Source: www.6pumpcourt.co.uk
‘A taskforce of environmental lawyers is drawing up plans to stop thousands of EU rules protecting rivers, wildlife, coastlines and air quality from being dropped by the government after Brexit.’
The Guardian, 3rd July 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘I have taken as the first part of the title of this lecture words with which Lord Scarman would have been very familiar: Law Reform Now – the three words which formed the title of the Gerald Gardiner and Andrew Martin book which contained their blueprint for what would become the Law Commission. As Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC, in the course of tracing the origins and huge success of the Law Commission in his 2015 Scarman Lecture, recalled, it started with a proposition; one they took to be axiomatic: “. . . that much of our English law is out of date, and some of it shockingly so.” They were not wrong.’
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Protections for 1.2m Britons on continent and 3.5m Europeans in UK should be easy to settle in theory, but there are obstacles.’
The Guardian, 23rd June 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘There will be no Queen’s Speech next year to give MPs more time to deal with Brexit laws, the government says.’
BBC News, 18th June 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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