All Brexit articles – Page 2
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Opinion
A time to reconsider VAT on legal services
The argument in favour of reduced or exempt VAT on legal services has always been about equality of arms and access to justice.
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Opinion
Post-Brexit rights: prepare for more surprises
Brexit has not gone away and the courts keep reminding us that issues still need to be worked through.
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News
English and Irish law will ‘grow further apart’, senior judge says
Irish Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Gerard Hogan says a divergence between the two legal systems is ‘inevitable’ post-Brexit.
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News
Keep EU law or face ‘unpredictable consequences’, former GLD chief warns
Sir Jonathan Jones tells MPs to ‘beware of the unintended consequences’ of removing EU law’s supremacy, which ‘will provoke litigation’.
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News
News focus: Brexit Freedoms Bill - freedom from what?
Mired in politicking, the Brexit Freedoms Bill that will ‘move us away from outdated EU laws’ has still to be published. What lawyers are confronted with at present is an elaborate game of charades.
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News
Legal services to benefit from Brexit freedoms, PM claims
Government to consult on becoming a party to the Singapore Convention on Mediation.
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News
News focus: Brexit - one year on
Solicitors continue to face a patchwork of arrangements that fail to reflect the importance accorded to legal services in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
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News
English courts can still grant pan-EU trade mark injunctions, judge rules
Sir Julian Flaux also says that the Withdrawal Agreement has ‘direct legislative effect in the United Kingdom’.
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Feature
Thinking positive
Some IP lawyers feared Brexit and Covid-19 would be bad for business. They could hardly have been more wrong.
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Opinion
A small Brexit dividend for lawyer-client confidentiality?
Proposed wording in our government’s new rules on lawyers’ reporting obligations misses out a principal mischief.
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News
London in spotlight as EU moves against ‘SLAPP industry'
MEPs propose measures to counteract legal actions designed to silence critical voices.
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Opinion
Nationality and Borders Bill shows questionable priorities
We have an immigration problem but it really isn’t the one the government is focused on.
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News
Lugano exclusion 'not a disaster' - justice minister
Lord Wolfson says government has not given up on joining convention.
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News
Government plans bonfire of retained EU law
'We must now revisit this huge, but for us, anomalous, category of law,' minister tells Lords.
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News
‘Brexit hasn’t happened yet’ for law firms, says Society
The end of freedom of movement is likely to have ‘huge impact’ on solicitors, profession is warned.
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News
City courts need more money to stay competitive, warns lobby group
UK's position in dispute resolution is under threat from countries such as Singapore, The CityUK has argued.
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Opinion
‘Staying on’ in the EU
I hope that someone somewhere is writing a history of those UK nationals who remain living in the EU after the UK’s decision to leave, examining why they stayed, how they feel about the experience, and whether they are prospering.