New Year’s Eve 2020 was a bit different from other years, and for more reasons than one. It will certainly be a date that any English lawyer advising on the UK’s postBrexit legal system will not easily forget. At 11pm GMT, EU...more
The United Kingdom and the European Union are set to take bold strides towards the regulation of digital markets in coming months. While both are broadly aligned in their intention to better regulate large tech companies, the...more
We are pleased to provide you with the third annual installment of our Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons guide. For each of these guides, we have asked our industry thought leaders throughout the world to write about...more
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The Conservative Party has won a convincing majority of seats in the House of Commons, and it will follow that Boris Johnson will be asked later today by The Queen to form a new government.
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As the UK's constitution continues to be tested, the Brexit fundamentals remain unchanged.
Seven weeks from now, the UK will automatically exit the EU on 31 October by the default operation of the Article 50 process. The...more
The UK Conservative Party leadership race is in full swing, with candidates making a number of promises and pledges relating to Brexit. In light of this, it is instructive to recap the basic legal position in which the UK...more
Do you have a centralised EU marketing authorisation holder, orphan designation holder, manufacturing activities including import, batch control or batch release sites, a Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (QPPV),...more
Do you hold a CE certificate of conformity issued by a UK notified body? Are your manufacturing activities, authorised representative, suppliers, customers or contracting parties located in the UK?
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With only 72 days remaining until the UK automatically ceases to be a member of the EU, the UK Parliament has emphatically rejected the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration painstakingly negotiated by the UK...more
Businesses need to be alert to potentially significant changes to their legal and regulatory environments as a result of a no-deal Brexit. ...more
Reading the political runes is a fool's errand in 2018. So, how can we assess the risk of a no-deal Brexit? There is no doubt that the consensus view among businesses is that it has gone from a theoretical but marginal...more
London is in the midst of a heatwave but a storm has hit Westminster. The Government has begun publishing the draft statutory instruments (SIs) it intends to adopt using its new delegated power in the European Union...more
The complex politics of Brexit are already swirling around the communique issued by the UK Government following the cabinet awayday. The full extent of the UK political fallout will only become clear in the coming hours,...more
With around 19,000 pieces of EU legislation currently in force in the UK, EU law touches all aspects of life, from health and safety to harbours and highways; from employment rights to exotic diseases....more
The EU27 have agreed the terms of the UK's transitional period with the EU following its exit on 29 March 2019 and adopted guidelines setting out the EU's negotiating position on the future relationship....more
On 2 March 2018, Theresa May made her third major speech on Brexit in which she set out in more detail than ever before the ambitious future relationship that the UK Government is seeking to negotiate with the EU. ...more
On the eve of the debate in the House of Lords on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill (the Bill), the House of Lords Constitution Committee (the Committee) has published a report (the Report) describing the Bill as...more
In what looks set to be the last major Brexit development of 2017, the European Commission yesterday published its recommended draft negotiating directives for the next phase of the Article 50 negotiations. ...more
The EU Withdrawal Bill has now entered the committee stage in the House of Commons. This is the stage at which Parliament gets into the detail of the Bill, including amending it if necessary. ...more
100 business leaders. 27 roundtables. 18 economies of the EU27. One central conclusion: Politicians are not listening to the concerns and priorities of European business. That was the consensus at the launch of an important...more
We described in our Practical Roadmap to the Negotiations the three possible scenarios: Cliff Edge, Cliff Hanger and Glide Path. Whilst Downing Street's rhetoric has consistently set its preference against the prospect of a...more
The UK's position paper on dispute resolution and the role of the CJEU begins the process of squaring the circle created by the UK's stated intention to retake control from the CJEU. As far back as the Prime Minister's...more
Before a central London audience earlier this month, Charles Brasted, partner and head of public law and policy at Hogan Lovells, and leading QCs Tim Ward, Jessica Simor and Gerry Facenna reflected on the likely impact of the...more
The Government took the first step to implementing one of its key Brexit policies today. The long-awaited Repeal Bill, formally named the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, which was first announced in October last year, has...more
The Queen's Speech has set out the UK Government's intended legislative programme for the next two years – and its focus is Brexit.
While there is little to no new detail, there are some further hints of how the...more