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Brexit bulletin

16 March 2018
Issue: 7785 / Categories: Features , Brexit
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Charting the latest developments on the ‘road to Brexit’

  • EU draft Withdrawal Agreement: protocol re ‘fall-back’ solution for avoiding a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
  • Devolution agreements and Policy paper on EU citizens arriving in the UK.

The European Commission published draft terms for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU at the end of February.

The EU draft Withdrawal Agreement consolidates and converts into legal terms the December joint report on withdrawal priorities agreed in the first phase of the Brexit negotiations. The draft also includes proposed text addressing the outstanding separation issues not fully resolved in the joint report, as well as text on the proposed transitional arrangements. The draft text was circulated for discussion with the Council (Article 50) and the European Parliament Brexit Steering Group, before being transmitted to the UK for negotiation.

The EU draft comprises six key sections:

  • introductory provisions—including objective, scope, definitions, principles, including the definition of Union law;
  • citizens’ rights—scope and duration, residence, workers, qualifications and social security;
  • separation issues—eg goods on the market, customs procedures,
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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