Tags matching 'brexit'
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the aches and pains of the Transition Period
The Transition Period of almost one year lasting until 31 December 2020 (unless extended by agreement between the parties), which was...
05/03/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the EU's vision of a green and digital world
On 2 March 2020 , Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner in charge of EU competition...
04/03/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit, the US and getting down to the business of trade negotiations
Monday , 2 March was a minor landmark day for the UK (but also for the EU and quite separately, the US) in the UK's timetable for...
03/03/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and Coronavirus
The Coronavirus (aka Covid-19) has had the dubious distinction of knocking Brexit off the front page as the main source of concern and...
02/03/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and sketching out the UK negotiating position on free trade talks with the EU
David Frost, the chief UK negotiator, made an important speech on 17 February 2020 at ULB Brussels University outlining the UK approach...
18/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and tough negotiating positions on free trade
It is rumoured that Boris Johnson and his Government are trying to ban or reduce references to "Brexit" in official communications and...
18/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the European Parliament
The Parliament of the EU ("the European Parliament") has set out its stall on the proposed EU objectives for a Free Trade Agreement...
14/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and UK-EU dispute resolution on financial services matters
In the lead-up to UK-EU free trade negotiations, the two sides are shadow-boxing on particular issues that concern them. Trade in...
13/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and designing the future trading relationship between the UK and the EU
A couple of straws in the wind point to the UK's direction of travel in its upcoming trade negotiations with the EU. This is even though...
12/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the introduction of import controls on EU goods
In a speech on 10 February 2020 to delegates at a UK Cabinet Office-hosted event entitled "Preparing our Border for the Future...
11/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and consumer law
The prospect of divergence between EU rules and UK law and practice following the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 is...
10/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the European Court of Justice
One of the contentious areas of any future trade negotiations between the UK and the EU is the role of the European Court of Justice...
07/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and MiFID II
MiFID II is EU legislation (including the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation-MiFIR) which came into force on 3 January 2018 to...
06/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and trading under WTO rules
The UK Government "Transition Period" website is generating useful information on the post- Brexit cross-border trading environment for...
05/02/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and differing approaches to free trade negotiations
The 3 February 2020 saw the UK and EU setting out their different stalls for the free trade negotiations, which are due to take place...
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Joanne Moseley
Post Brexit UK immigration - what's changed?
The UK left the EU last week. Our immigration expert Ben Xu explains what that means for employers wishing to recruit or retain EU...
03/02/20
Joanne Moseley
Will workers’ rights change after Brexit?
The UK leaves the EU at 11pm tonight - January 31 2020. Despite the ‘get Brexit done’ message, there will be no immediate changes to our...
31/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit: what's next?
Following the Conservative Party winning December’s general election by a significant majority, the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)...
30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit, the Digital Copyright Directive and Creeping Divergence
One of the more controversial pieces of EU legislation recently is the so-called Digital Copyright Directive of 17 April 2019 (EU...
30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit, rights of access to EU trade deals and the importance of an asterisk
Article 129 (1) of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement essentially confirms that during the transition period extending from 11pm (UK time) on...
30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and UK trade policy for the food and drink industry
On 27 January 2020 , three prestigious UK food and drink sector Defra-sponsored representative groupings - the Food and Drink...
28/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and Green Finance
"Green Finance" is very much in the news at the moment following the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid in December 2019 and...
27/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020
The news that the European Union ( Withdrawal Agreement ) Act 2020 had received Royal Assent and passed into UK law on 23rd January 2020...
24/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and issues of regulatory alignment and / or equivalence
The battle-lines are being drawn up for the up coming negotiations between the UK and the EU on a free trade agreement, which would take...
24/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the Sewel Convention
The Sewel Convention holds that the UK Parliament will not normally legislate on matters within the competencies of the devolved...
22/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit, the digital economy and data protection
In an interesting Article for The Times on 15 January 2020, its Banking Editor, Katherine Griffiths, analysed some of the implications...
16/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the negotiating position of the EU Commission "Brexit" Taskforce on a Free Trade Agreement with the UK
Unless and until Brexit is actually "done" by 31st January 2020, it is perhaps yet not entirely safe to assume that all will go smoothly...
15/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Let's not chicken out!
Theresa Villiers’ recent pledge not to lower UK food standards regarding beef and chicken is a welcome reassurance to the UK Food & Drink...
14/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the role of the UK Courts in interpreting retained EU case law
As the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement ) Bill begins its passage through the House of Lords, Lord Pannick QC, a crossbench peer who...
14/01/20
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and setting the timetable for trade negotiations
Talks about talks and speculation about timetables seem to be the order of the day at the moment as different parties seek to analyse the...
13/01/20