A legal case to determine whether the Article 50 notice can be revoked unilaterally or whether the consent of the other 27 EU member states is required has been dismissed by the Court of Session in Edinburgh. The judicial review was brought by a cross-party group of MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament). However, Lord Doherty ruled this week, at [2018] CSOH 8, that the action had no real prospect of success, stating the question was ‘hypothetical and academic’ since ‘neither Parliament nor the government has any wish to withdraw the notification’.
08 February 2018
Brexit case dismissed
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
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Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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