Just one year to go until we leave the EU, and we ‘still have yet to agree among ourselves the fundamentals of the relationship,’ David Greene writes in this week’s NLJ.
Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe and NLJ columnist, says the European Commission’s November paper on civil justice was ‘a stark warning’ that civil and family law judgments will no longer be enforceable in the EU. Likewise, the EU Council’s January paper on the transition period presents a ‘stark’ EU position.
Meanwhile, crucial political decisions have yet to be taken, and ‘time is ticking on putting into place any alternatives’ to a transition period. For example, the lead-in to joining the Lugano Convention (as a replacement for the Brussels Regulations) is at least 12 months.
