Posts from April 2020

Brexit and moves to extend the Transition Period
Article 132 of the UK-EU Brexit- related Withdrawal Agreement permits the UK-EU Joint Committee established under that Agreement to...
06/04/20
Updated furlough guidance answers some questions but important ones are still unclear
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the government updated its guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The first version...
06/04/20
Holiday and furlough - the unanswered questions
On Monday the government published employer and employee guidance on its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Since then lawyers, HR...
03/04/20
Brexit and joining up the dots on Covid-19
On 1 April 2020, the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee published a report summarising the EU's policy and legal measures in...
03/04/20
Virtual Reality: Government publishes regulations enabling planning committees to be held remotely
If nothing else, our current circumstances have certainly proven that the UK's legislative draftsman are a genuinely exceptional and...
02/04/20
Can I get that pint to takeaway, mate?
In our team chat this last week I discovered that some of the southerners in my team have their local Boozers on deliveroo.@^ Now they...
02/04/20
Brexit and the European Court of Justice - an interesting court case
On 2 April 2020, The Times newspaper reported on the UK Supreme Court decision announced the previous day in Zipvit Limited v HMRC, a...
02/04/20
Brexit and the Joint Committee
The Joint Committee, set up under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement to monitor and supervise implementation of that Agreement, met for the...
01/04/20