The results of the Conservative leadership election will be announced on 23 July 2019. Following this, a new Prime Minister is expected to be confirmed on 24 July 2019: shortly before Parliament’s expected summer recess on 25 July 2019. The two candidates remaining in the Conservative leadership race have extremely different views on how to … Read more
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has published two speeches on litigating financial disputes by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court, and Sir Nicholas Hamblen, Lord Justice of Appeal. In his speech, Sir Geoffrey discusses the effect of Brexit on financial services disputes in London which he considers will not be as dramatic as … Read more
At the time of sending this invitation, cross-party talks between the Conservatives and Labour remain in a deadlock with no sign of agreement being reached in time for ratification of a withdrawal deal before the forthcoming European Parliament elections. With this in mind, UK voters are going to be asked to cast votes for new … Read more
The post below was first published on our Litigation blog Updated 8 July 2019: According to press reports, the European Medicines Agency will no longer be pursuing its appeal in this case, having settled the dispute following an agreement to sublet the Canary Wharf premises to Wework. The High Court has rejected an argument that … Read more
Will Brexit frustrate some very valuable commercial leases? In the latest edition of Hebert Smith Freehills’ Real Estate podcast series, Matthew Bonye and Tom Leech QC from Herbert Smith Freehills discuss the important CWG v. EMA court case and how things may turn out for the real estate industry. Read more
This issue of ‘The View from Brussels’ focuses on the relevance of WTO arguments in the negotiations. The UK has so far not deployed any serious arguments based on the obligations and constraints faced by the EU as a member of the WTO, either through lack of familiarity with WTO rules or fear that making … Read more
The news regarding the conditional agreement between the EU and UK on the terms of a 21 month transition period is welcome. However, as both sides have made clear: nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. We will only know at the end of the Article 50 process whether a cliff edge has been avoided. … Read more
The House of Commons Committee on Exiting the European Union publishes the analysis of the Department for Exiting the EU on the impact of an EEA-type, FTA-type, and WTO Brexit scenarios on UK’s industries with a short sector narrative of the Chemicals, Financial Services, and Professional and Business Services industries. The Committee published the documents … Read more
