Forget the 12 Days of Christmas, there are now just 100 days remaining of the United Kingdom’s forty-six-year membership of the European Union. In the upcoming weeks, days and hours, critical choices will be made that will shape not just Brexit but every aspect of UK political, economic and social life in the years ahead. [...]
Putting the Bullet Back in the Chamber -Could Parliament Exit from Brexit?
The Wightman judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union holding that a Member State may unilaterally revoke its notified intention to withdraw from the EU prior to that withdrawal taking effect has largely fallen foul of a Brexit news cycle in which each new twist and turn supersedes the last. Indeed the [...]
Time for a Rethink – What Did We Learn From Today’s Opinion on Revoking an Article 50 Withdrawal Notification?
In an Opinion published today, Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona has recommended to the Court of Justice of the EU that it finds that it is legally possible for a Member State to revoke its Article 50 withdrawal notification and that it may do so unilaterally. The Advocate General emphasised the unilateral nature of the notification [...]
Is the ‘Backstop’ a Trampoline to the Future UK-EU Trade Relationship
Following the publication of the text of the Withdrawal Agreement on 14 November, the full text of the Political Declaration on the future UK-EU relationship is now keenly awaited (the outline was published on the same day as the text of the Withdrawal Agreement). It will set out the aspirations for an ambitious economic relationship [...]
