Leandro Mancano LERU Brexit Seminar Justice and Home Affairs Law is one of the most controversial areas of cooperation between the United Kingdom (UK) and other European Union (EU) member states. Although the participation of the UK in such measures has been inconsistent and progressed on a case-by-case basis, the mutual benefits ensuing from …
Category: Brexit and EU Referendum
Keeping Free Movement vs. Ending Free Movement: The Common Travel Area after Brexit
Daniel Carter LERU Brexit Seminar The Common Travel Area (CTA) The Common Travel Area (CTA) between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland dates back to Irish independence in 1922, when no alterations were made to the border arrangements as they then stood. Under British law, the ‘Free State’ of Ireland was classed …
Implementation of Brexit in the UK
Darren Harvey LERU Brexit Seminar Introduction In order to prepare the UK legal order for Brexit, the UK Government’s flagship piece of legislation, the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 (EUWA), received royal assent on 26th June 2018. The EUWA repeals the European Communities Act 1972 (ECA) on “exit day”, which is defined in section 20(1) …
Regulation of Unfair Trading Practices between Businesses after Brexit
Tom Verdonk LERU Brexit Seminar With the UK’s imminent withdrawal from the EU, the EU’s motto “United in diversity” has clearly taken a hit. While the motto is generally used to refer to European cultural diversity, it could equally apply to some legal domains. One legal area in which EU Member States have shown …
Brexit, Northern Ireland, and Devolution
Amanda Kramer Brexit and Rights Engagement Network One of the biggest difficulties facing the UK government in the current Brexit negotiations is how to resolve the problems that Brexit has created for Northern Ireland. Of these problems, the UK is facing increasing pressure to resolve one in particular: the potential borders that might arise …
Brexit and Human Rights in Northern Ireland
Alan Greene Brexit and Rights Engagement Network As the Brexit negotiations reach their endgame, the border on the island of Ireland has become the main stumbling block. The so-called ‘Irish question’ is, however, much more multi-faceted than just the issue of ‘border checks’. The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) which has brought relative peace …
Now is the time to consider a bill of rights for Scotland
Kirsteen Shields Brexit and Rights Engagement Network The UK government is chasing an illusion of sovereignty via Brexit, but it is a change that will come at the expense of our rights. Westminster will remove one of the few, and relatively new, limits on its powers when it revokes membership of the EU. …
Incorporating International Human Rights in a Devolved Context
Kasey McCall-Smith Brexit and Rights Engagement Network International human rights treaties universally contain a call to States parties to give legal effect to the obligations found in the treaty text. Article 2(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, for example, obliges states ‘to adopt such laws or other measures as …