Breaking down Brexit

• The European Medicines Agency (EMA) searches for a new home following Brexit

  Author: David Pourtney

  Submitted: 03 October 2017

  Our latest blog post looks at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) searching for a new home. Following Brexit, the EMA will be forced to relocate from London to within the newly drawn border of the EU.​

  

• 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.

  

• UPC Agreement to be ratified by the UK

  Submitted: 28 November 2016

  UK Government ministers have announced at the Competitiveness Council today that the UK will ratify the UPC Agreement. We infer that the UK Government thinks that it will be able to negotiate with the other contracting states and the EU to permit the UK to remain involved in the UPC after Brexit.

• Government to decide whether to ratify the UPC Agreement

  Submitted: 24 November 2016

  It is widely expected that at the meeting of the UPC Competitiveness Council on Monday 28 November 2016, the UK Government will make clear its position as to whether it intends to ratify the UPC Agreement.

• Brexit and the Unified Patent Court

  Submitted: 21 July 2016

  The referendum result has generated widespread uncertainty with its attendant economic consequences. But in one area the damage is more direct and immediate.