Last week was a busy week on the road to Brexit. The EU 27 and the UK both gave broad indications of how they plan to approach the Brexit negotiations, via the publication of three documents: the UK’s Article 50 notice, a draft of the European Parliament’s motion for a resolution on the negotiations and a draft of the European Council’s negotiation guidelines. Whilst it is still far from clear what the end destination will be, the direction of travel is becoming marginally clearer.

We also heard more about how the UK Government plans to plug the huge gap that would appear in the UK statute book if EU laws were allowed to fall away on Brexit, via the publication of the Government’s White Paper on its proposed Great Repeal Bill, with its striking focus on the importance of maintaining legal certainty.?