Breaking down Brexit

• “Super-equivalence”: the Government’s proposed new approach to financial services after Brexit

  Submitted: 16 July 2018

  A summary of the Government's proposed approach to financial services after Brexit.

  

• Interpretation of law post-Brexit

  Submitted: 14 July 2017

  The publication of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and the UK Government’s position paper on ongoing EU proceedings sheds some light on how the UK courts will approach interpreting EU legislation retained in the UK post-Brexit, but questions and difficulties remain.

  

• Towards transition: Brexit & the EU

  Submitted: 13 July 2017

  This week, we hosted an event at our London office (and simultaneously live-streamed for those unable to join in person), on the topic of business transition in the context of Brexit and the EU.

  

• Brexit: Rule Brittania

  Author: Basil Wood-Walker

  Submitted: 11 July 2017

  Two Law Lords have recently entered the public arena on Brexit, highlighting the opportunities and challenges which Brexit brings.

  

• Brexit after the June election

  Submitted: 12 June 2017

  The Prime Minister called the June election in order to strengthen her domestic political position before the start of Brexit negotiations. She appears to have achieved the opposite and we now have a hung Parliament and a minority government. Nevertheless, for the time being the UK Government appears set on continuing with its pre election policy for a “hard” Brexit. It remains to be seen whether this is politically possible.

  

• ECJ Opinion - Singapore Free Trade Agreement and Brexit implications

  Submitted: 19 May 2017

  ​The European Court of Justice's Opinion on questions of the process for concluding a bilateral free trade agreement between the EU and the Republic of Singapore is particularly important as it will determine which provisions will require approval and subsequent ratification from all remaining EU Member States in any UK-EU deal brokered in the context of Brexit.