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4 Feb 2019 11:57
Brexit round up – Week commencing 28 January 2019Matrix’s Legal Support Service provides a round-up of Brexit-related links and news. Brexit and the UK constitution Financial Secretary to the Treasury Mel Stride has stated that he believes a border poll on the reunification of Ireland, and a fresh drive for Scottish independence, will happen more...
31 Jan 2019 15:23
Environmental Principles and Governance after the United Kingdom leaves the European UnionWhilst land-use planning in England is the responsibility of the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) much environmental regulation is the responsibility of the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). In 2018, DEFRA published ‘A Green Future: Our 25 Year more...
28 Jan 2019 14:06
Brexit round up – Week commencing 21 January 2019Matrix’s Legal Support Service provides a round-up of Brexit-related links and news Brexit and the UK constitution David Pannick QC has written in The Times, discussing Brexit and art 50, and arguing that the Government should be asking the EU for more time. For the Constitution Unit, Alan Renwick more...
28 Jan 2019 10:17
Which? considers house price predictions for Brexit and beyondAs the UK endures continued economic and political uncertainty and braces for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, consumer group Which? has analysed the housing market over recent years and has published expert house price predictionsfor Brexit and beyond. The article is interesting reading for more...
21 Jan 2019 10:36
Key implications of Brexit January 2019We’ve provided a practical guide to some of the implications that UK businesses currently face, given the rejection by Parliament on 15 January 2019 of the Withdrawal Agreement, of a no-deal Brexit. To view the guide, please click here. more...
21 Jan 2019 10:16
Brexit round up – Week commencing 14 January 2019Matrix’s Legal Support Service provides a round-up of Brexit-related links and news. Brexit and the UK constitution The Prime Minister raised the spectre of Scottish independence and a united Ireland for the first time in an attempt to persuade Tory Brexiteers and DUP rebels to back the Government’s more...
21 Jan 2019 10:02
Round Up: Heated politics, immigration matters, and a win for The Mail OnlineIn his 1748 text ‘The Spirit of the Laws’, Montesquieu proposed his initial concept of what would ultimately become known amongst political scientists as the separation of powers. Mercifully, for both the writer of this blog and the time poor reader, this weekly round-up of events need only concern more...
17 Jan 2019 15:51
What happens to the Agriculture Bill if there is no Brexit?Following the decisive defeat of the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal in parliament this week, Julie Robinson considers the implications for the Agriculture Bill if the UK does not leave the EU. The whole rationale behind the Agriculture Bill was to enable a new support scheme for farmers to be put in more...
16 Jan 2019 15:18
Brexit – what happens next?Now that the House of Commons has overwhelmingly rejected the government’s Brexit deal, we take a look at what happens next and what it means for businesses. On Tuesday 15 January 2019, the House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to reject the Brexit deal negotiated between the government and the more...
14 Jan 2019 12:22
Brexit round up – Week commencing 7 January 2019Matrix’s Legal Support Service provides a round-up of Brexit-related links and news. Brexit and the UK constitution The House of Lords Library has published a briefing paper on the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, s 13(1)(c), which sets out specific requirements that must be met before the UK more...
9 Jan 2019 16:05
Are your website terms and conditions shipshape?Having been awarded a £13.8m contract to run freight services following a possible no-deal Brexit, Seaborne Freight was left red-faced after its website terms and conditions appeared to have been copied from a takeaway restaurant. Using Sparqa Legal’s expertly-drafted set of legal documents and more...
8 Jan 2019 11:53
The Legal Services Brexit Summit: Practical Implications, Challenges and OpportunitiesJuriosity is supporting this event. 12th February 2019, London 20% Discount for all Juriosity members - see below for details UK legal services, like many other parts of the economy, will be enormously affected by Brexit. The impact will be both direct and indirect – the former through any changes more...
8 Jan 2019 09:10
Brexit round up – Fortnight commencing 24 December 2018Matrix’s Legal Support Service provides a round-up of Brexit-related links and news. The UK’s post-Brexit deal with the EU Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood has stated that leaving the EU without a deal is ‘not an option’ given the threat it would pose to Britain’s security. However Andrea Leadsom has more...
4 Jan 2019 15:37
The legal view: Will Brexit affect regulation?First published by Pensions Expert on 1 January 2019, copyright FT Brexit continues to dominate the headlines, and the unknowns seem to multiply constantly. Will parliament pass the deal agreed by the EU? Will there be a hard Brexit? Will the UK remain? Will there be a second referendum? To read the more...
3 Jan 2019 10:21
Important dates for your 2019 legal diaryWith the UK due to leave the EU on 29 March, 2019 looks set to be a busy year of changing legal horizons. At Sparqa Legal, we are constantly reviewing our content to keep it up-to-date with legal developments as and when they happen. Looking ahead to the first half of 2019, here are some key legal more...
2 Jan 2019 10:20
Immigration to the UK post-Brexit and impact upon domestic football clubsIMMIGRATION TO THE UK POST-BREXIT The Government last week updated the information publicly available about immigration to the UK post-Brexit[footnote 1]. The new system will not come into force immediately post-Brexit but after an “Implementation Period” during which further changes and refinements more...
20 Dec 2018 12:26
“2018 in legal – the year of the agreement” – Rupert Choat for Building MagazineRupert Choat looks back at 2018. Originally published in Building magazine – 20 December 2018. While one particular agreement dominated this year’s headlines, there was plenty on offer from other agreements. The negotiation of the withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU monopolised the news more...
SHOWING PARLIAMENT THE WAY HOME
This morning six Scottish Parliamentarians and I return from the Court of Justice in Luxembourg to Scotland’s Highest Court, the Inner House of the Court of Session. In Luxembourg we persuaded the CJ, in the face of opposition from our own Government, the EU Commission and the EU Council more...
18 Dec 2018 14:24
The Government in a bind?Once again, the holding of a referendum is being discussed as the potential solution to a Party and Parliamentary impasse. Theresa May’s dilemma is that she has reached an agreement with the European Union about the terms of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union but it is reported that even more...
17 Dec 2018 13:04
Brexit weekly round up – Week commencing 10 December 2018Matrix’s Legal Support Service provides a weekly round-up of Brexit-related links and news. Brexit and the UK constitution The CJEU has handed down judgment in the case of Wightman & Ors v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU (C-621-18), holding that the UK can unilaterally revoke the more...
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