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...
06/04/20Updated 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...
06/04/20Holiday and furlough - the unanswered questions
On Monday the government published employer and employee guidance on its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Since then lawyers, HR...
03/04/20Brexit 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...
03/04/20Virtual 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...
02/04/20Can 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...
02/04/20Brexit 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...
02/04/20Brexit 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...
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