Lucy Trevelyan Despite the EU and UK’s eleventh-hour deal on trade in December 2020, no direct agreement was reached to replace the Brussels Regulation (recast) regime. This regulation provides a streamlined process for the reciprocal enforcement of judgments between the courts of EU Member States. Since 1 January 2021, therefore, […]

A United Kingdom parliamentary committee has warned that the country’s lawyers ‘may become unable to operate in the EU’ under UK-specific limited liability partnership (LLP) structures if a Brexit agreement with the European Union is not reached. A House of Lords’ EU Services Sub-Committee report – published in mid-October – […]

In early September, environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) blocked access to printing presses used by UK newspapers. The move drew condemnation from government figures – and added to the febrile atmosphere of protest during 2020. XR – which describes itself as a non-violent direct action group which takes disruptive, […]

In early September, the British Government introduced its proposed Internal Market Bill to parliament, a piece of legislation that has quickly become highly contested. Ostensibly intended to protect the United Kingdom’s internal markets if negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union break down, the Bill’s text has […]

At its July budget-setting meeting, the European Council made finding a way to help European Union Member States recover from the Covid-19 pandemic one of its top priorities. As the Council itself said at the time, ‘the socio-economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis requires a joint and innovative effort at […]

In July the British Government announced the first wave of targets of its new, post-Brexit sanctions regime. Forty-nine individuals and organisations have been targeted, meaning they are banned from entering the United Kingdom, channelling money through UK banks or ‘profiting from our economy’, as the government announcement stated. The list […]

IBA Annual Conference Seoul 2019 The 2019 Annual Conference will be held in Seoul, South Korea, a thriving metropolis that mixes the traditional with the modern – from skyscrapers, high-tech subways, K-pop culture and K-beauty to Buddhist temples, palaces and street markets and a history going back 5,000 years. This […]