– Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona of the ECJ proposed that the ‘Court should declare that Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU’. The opinion as well as the subsequent judgment from 10 December 2018 can be found here (C-621/18 – Wightman and Others).
– The Government published the Attorney General’s legal advice to Cabinet on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
– A new Brexit-related Command Paper was published – EU Exit Legal position on the Withdrawal Agreement
– The Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration published/updated the following materials – EU Settlement Scheme: employer toolkit; EU Settlement Scheme: community leaders toolkit; EU Settlement Scheme: ID document scanner locations; EU Settlement Scheme: Assisted Digital service
– The Department for Exiting the European Union updated its policy paper – Exiting the European Union: Publications
– The Department for International Trade published new guidance – Factsheet: our future UK trade policy
– The European Union Committee (House of Lords) produced a new report – Brexit: the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration
– The European Scrutiny Committee (House of Commons) produced a new report – Forty-sixth Report of Session 2017–19
– The Home Affairs Committee (House of Commons) produced a new report – Home Office preparations for the UK exiting the EU
– The Exiting the European Union Committee (House of Commons) published a new report – The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal – The Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration
-The following new guidance on the no-deal Brexit scenario were published – Food and feed safety risk assessment and management if there’s no Brexit deal
– The HM Revenue & Customs published a new impact assessment – HMRC impact assessment for the movement of goods if the UK leaves the EU without a deal
– The Department for Exiting the European Union published a new policy paper – Policy paper on citizens’ rights in the event of a no deal Brexit
– The House of Commons Library produced several research briefings – Brexit deal: Economic analyses; Fisheries Management in the UK; State aid, public ownership and workers’ rights after the UK leaves the EU
– The House of Lords Library published a new research briefing – Constitutional Issues and the Case for a UK-wide Constitutional Convention
– A new post was published on the House of Commons Library blog – Brexit and the economy: Government analysis of the long-term impact
– The External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee (National Assembly for Wales) published a new report – Preparing for Brexit. Report on the preparedness of the food and drink sector in Wales.
– New posts were published on the National Assembly for Wales Research Service blog In Brief – What will happen to Wales’ membership of the Committee of the Regions after Brexit?; How might different Brexit scenarios affect the Welsh economy?
– A new post was published on the Welsh Brexit blog (Cardiff University) – Three reasons to support the Withdrawal Agreement
– New documents were made available on the Taskforce on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom website – Proposal for a Council decision on the signing of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community; Proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community; Annex to the Proposal for a Council decision on the signing of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community
– A new Brexit-related post was published on the European Parliamentary Research Service blog – Brexit: The endgame? [What Think Tanks are thinking]
– A new post was published on the Monckton Brexit blog – State Aid and The Withdrawal Agreement: Key Points
– New posts were published on the Brick Court Chambers Brexit Law blog – EU Advocate General says UK’s Article 50 notice of intention to leave EU can be unilaterally revoked; Court of Justice rules on the effect of Brexit on trade marks; ECJ confirms that Article 50 is unilaterally revocable by the United Kingdom
– New posts were published on the Free Movement blog – Court of Justice of the European Union holds that Brexit can be unilaterally cancelled; Government to water down EU citizens’ rights if no Brexit deal; Advising EU citizens on their settlement rights may be illegal warns regulator; EU Advocate General: the United Kingdom CAN cancel Brexit if it wants to
– New posts were published on the Monckton Brexit blog – State Aid and The Withdrawal Agreement: Key Points; Wightman AG opinion
– A new article was published on the UCL – The Constitution Unit website – A second Brexit referendum looks increasingly likely: what key questions need to be addressed?
– New articles were published on the EU Law Analysis blog – To Boldly Go? Analysis and annotation of the EU/UK Future Relationship declaration; Brexit: you can U-turn if you want to. The CJEU judgment in Wightman
– New articles were published on the UK in a Changing Europe website, including the following – New report explains what trading on WTO terms would mean; A closer look at the withdrawal agreement and its political implications; Brexit and dispute resolution: the UK’s mini victory?
– A new article – Gavin Phillipson and Alison L. Young: Wightman: What Would Be the UK’s Constitutional Requirements to Revoke Article 50? – was published on the UK Constitutional Law Association website.
– A new post was published on the Full Fact website – Ask Full Fact: your Brexit questions answered
NEW ARTICLES IN THE LIBRARY
-A new Brexit-related article was published in the New law journal:
- Reverse gear on Brexit? The UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50, an Advocate General has said’ (7 December 2018) 168 (7820) NLJ 4.
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