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The UK government has provided no detail on how it will protect consumer rights via shared legislation, shared mechanisms and cooperation with cross-border agencies post Brexit, a House of Lords sub-committee has reported. The House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee today calls on the government to

A bid to encourage companies to use Ireland as a jurisdiction to settle legal disputes has received the Government’s support, The Irish Independent reports.

Plans for a new court to adjudicate on trade disputes with the EU are being drawn up by UK governmentministers in an attempt to resolve a dispute with Brussels over the role of the European Court of Justice after Brexit. Whitehall is reported as favouring a model under which the UK and EU would have

The chiefs of The Bar of Ireland and The Bar of Northern Ireland have welcomed Friday's Brexit agreement between the UK and EU. In a statement, chairpersons Paul McGarry SC and Liam McCollum QC said they welcomed "the recognition and protection afforded to the relevant key legal provisions".

Pictured: Senator Michael McDowell SC at Checkpoint Cathal Borders and broken agreements lie ahead if the UK government stays its course on Brexit, according to speakers at the Hibernian Law Journal's Checkpoint Cathal lecture in Dublin.

Ken Murphy The Law Society of Ireland has warned of anxiety among its members that Brexit will affect their ability to practise in England and Wales.

The UK government has said that leaving the European Union will “bring about an end to the direct jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union”. The House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee has this week launched a new inquiry on this issue and the question of enforcement and disput

Nicholas Butcher International law firm Maples and Calder has announced plans to provide Irish transaction advice to UK clients from its London office.

Sir John Holmes The head of the UK's elections watchdog has called for urgent reform of electoral laws and confirmed an inquiry has begun into possible Russian interference in the Brexit vote.

Activists and organisations working in the area of human rights and equality have called for "written guarantees" that the Brexit negotiations will respect the Good Friday Agreement. They say there "must be no regression or diminution of existing human rights and equality guarantees for all people l

Pictured (l-r): Liam Reid, Peter Curran, Julie Sinnamon Business leaders gathered in Belfast today to discuss Brexit and the Irish border at an event sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland.

Irish judges are increasingly conducting international diplomacy following the Brexit vote, according to The Irish Times. There have been 78 foreign trips by Irish judges between June 2016 and July 2017, according to figures obtained by the newspaper, most of which were to legal conferences.

Ruairi Gillen Northern Ireland's Department of Justice is concerned that extradition and surrender procedures could become "toxic" after Brexit, according to an investigation by The Detail.

Professor Conor Gearty In an article first published on the LSE Brexit blog, Professor Conor Gearty scrutinises the notion of "a happy Brexit" and outlines ways in which the EU Withdrawal Bill will constitute a large transfer of power to the executive branch and may lead to the restriction of civil

Dr Colin Harvey Dr Colin Harvey, professor of human rights law in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, writes on the repercussions of Brexit across the island of Ireland.