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23 April 2021
Issue: 7929 / Categories: Legal News , Brexit , EU , Legal services , Profession
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NLJ this week: Post-Brexit, approach with caution

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We should take a ‘softly, softly’ approach to the post-Brexit world, David Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe, advises in his NLJ column this week.

Negotiating rights of practise is happening but is ‘a delicate process to be taken carefully’, Greene says.  The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is yet to be ratified―it has provisional application until the end of this month―and concerns have been raised over events relating to the Northern Ireland border, the UK’s alleged breach of the Withdrawal Agreement and a recent decision on EU competence by the German Constitutional Court.

Greene covers the uncertainty surrounding the Lugano Convention and identifies possible common law solutions, as well as suggesting some further reading. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
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