Tags matching 'brexit'
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and Anglo-French perspectives on Covid-19
A major theme for the new UK- EU relationship post-Brexit is what sort of civil society rights citizens and foreign nationals will enjoy...
14/04/20
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Brexit and the UK Financial Conduct Authority
On 7 April 2020, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Business Plan for 2020/21. Whilst much of the business plan...
14/04/20
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Brexit and an €540bn EU financial rescue package for Coronavirus- hit EU member states
Late on 9 April 2020, the Eurogroup of 19 Eurozone countries announced an EU - supported €540bn financial rescue package for countries...
14/04/20
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Brexit and an article from the House of Lords Library
Brexit has not gone away, even though Covid-19 seems determined to chase it down the track and out of the public eye! On 7 April 2020,...
09/04/20
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Brexit and two small business grant funding schemes
Attention is drawn to the Small Business Grant Fund (SMBGF) and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund (RHLGF) set up for...
08/04/20
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Brexit and EU approval of UK Government State Aid packages in the era of coronavirus
The European Commission issued a press release on 6 April 2020, confirming that it had approved, under EU state aid rules, a £50 billion...
07/04/20
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Brexit and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
On 2 April 2020, EIOPA , one of the EU's financial supervisory authorities, issued a press announcement urging insurance insurers and...
06/04/20
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Brexit and the administration of Justice
On 27 March 2020, the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee published a short progress report on key Justice-related issues in the...
31/03/20
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Brexit and the Trade Bill
A Trade Bill was re-introduced into the UK Parliament on 19 March 2020 (the earlier one having lapsed with the expiry of the previous...
30/03/20
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Brexit and changing times
On 29th March 2020, The Sunday Times reported that officials in London and Brussels have said that there is "zero" prospect of the UK and...
30/03/20
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Brexit and an EU-wide ventilator procurement scheme
The Times newspaper on 27 March 2020 reported on a "mix-up" over the UK's participation in an EU-wide ventilator procurement scheme set...
27/03/20
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Brexit, the Coronavirus Act 2020 and Human Rights
On 25 March 2020, the UK passed its Coronavirus Act 2020 which contains sweeping emergency powers to enable the UK Government to deal...
27/03/20
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Brexit and UK-EU cross-border pension schemes
Planning for the possibility that the UK and the EU might not reach a deal on their new relationship prior to the end of the transition...
25/03/20
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Brexit and the Silent Spring
In 1962, the American environmental scientist, Rachel Carson, published her seminal book "Silent Spring", which was principally about the...
24/03/20
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Brexit and data protection adequacy
Following Brexit on 31 January 2020 and the expiry of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and unless any other relevant...
23/03/20
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Brexit, coronavirus and the World Health Organisation
According to its website, the primary role of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is "to direct and co-ordinate international health...
23/03/20
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Brexit, EU State Aid Rules and Mr Rishi Sunak's coronavirus bailout package
In recent days, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a number of eye-watering measures to support UK...
23/03/20
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Brexit and addressing thorny issues in the UK-EU trade and economic negotiations
Whilst political and media attention is focussed mainly on the coronavirus emergency at the moment, some interesting thought...
20/03/20
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Brexit and a House of Lords Debate
On 16 March 2020 , the House of Lords, acting through its EU Select Committee, exercised its statutory right under section 29 of the...
18/03/20
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Brexit, Financial Services Equivalence and a rather formal exchange of letters
The new UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, have...
17/03/20
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Brexit and a draft EU trade treaty with the UK
On 13 March 2020, both the BBC and the Guardian newspaper reported that they had seen a draft EU trade treaty with the UK that the EU...
13/03/20
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Brexit and the UK Spring Budget 2020
"Brexit" was barely mentioned in Rishi Sunak's Budget speech on 11 March 2020 , except purely in the past tense - "We promised to get...
12/03/20
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Brexit and prudential financial regulation
In a significant speech entitled "The ideal post -EU regulatory framework" delivered on 10 March 2020, Dr Victoria Saporta, Bank of...
11/03/20
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Brexit and getting down to legal drafting
With the arrival of the Coronavirus on the world scene, Brexit has been relegated to almost (it may seem!) a walk-on role in the UK and...
10/03/20
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Brexit and Airbus - an interesting case study
Airbus is one of the World's largest manufacturers of commercial aircraft, helicopters and defence and satellite systems. Whilst the...
09/03/20
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Brexit and the politics of "divergence"
The first week-long round of UK- EU trade negotiations has now been completed. Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, is reported to...
06/03/20