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The United Kingdom is free to revoke unilaterally the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU and such a revocation, decided in accordance with its own national constitutional requirements, would have the effect that the United Kingdom remains in the EU under terms that are unchanged

The latest meeting of the referral bars of Scotland, England & Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland takes place at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh today. Meetings of the four bars – the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, the Bar Council in England and Wales, The Bar of Ireland in the Iris

The UK government has published its full legal advice on the draft Brexit deal after government ministers were found to be in contempt of Parliament in an historic first. The government had failed to publish the advice of Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC in spite of a binding vote to that effect by

Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  At the request of various MSPs, MPs and MEPs, the Inner House of the Court of Session, asks the Court of

An Irish extradition expert has said there is no barrier to Ireland and the UK striking a bilateral extradition agreement in the event of a hard Brexit, The Irish Times reports. Anthony Hanrahan, a barrister and author of The European Arrest Warrant in Ireland, discussed the possibility of a hard Br

The UK will find itself in a "constitutional crisis" if the Prime Minister fails to publish the legal advice she has been given on her Brexit deal, according to Labour. Theresa May says that the advice is confidential, though some MPs believe that ministers simply want to avoid admitting the deal bi

The constitutional conversation in Northern Ireland has to be "de-dramatised and normalised", Professor Colin Harvey of QUB School of Law has said. Professor Harvey opened his address to the fourth annual Belfast Homecoming Legal Symposium with commentary on the "political and legal turbulence" caus

Uncertainty over Brexit is "jangling nerves" for Irish law firms, according to a new report by professional services firm Smith & Williamson. The 2018 Smith & Williamson Irish Law Firm Survey shows that most Irish law firms anticipate a strong year ahead, with revenues and profits continuing

The impact of Brexit on migrants living and seeking residence in Northern Ireland was one of the themes of a Belfast conference hosted by the Immigration Practitioners' Group in the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Transatlantic data security, Brexit, sports and the US constitution will all be discussed at the Belfast International Homecoming Conference's legal symposium this year. Organisers of the event expect to welcome visiting lawyers from the US, Europe, England, Scotland and Wales to the symposium at th

Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is facing a private prosecution for alleged misconduct in public offence during the EU referendum campaign. Private prosecutor Marcus J Ball revealed today that he has notified Mr Johnson of his intention to bring a case against him.

EU citizens who are unwelcome in the UK could be banned from Ireland to prevent them crossing the border into Northern Ireland, according to a report in The Irish Times. Security sources told the newspaper that Government officials are working on a mechanism to prevent EU citizens using Ireland to "

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has issued the statement below in response to the draft Brexit deal announced this week. It is reproduced by Irish Legal News in full. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has today noted the publication of the draft agreement for the UK&rsquo

A professor of human rights law has warned that concerns over the impact of Brexit on human rights in Northern Ireland "will persist" after the publication of the draft Withdrawal Agreement. Professor Colin Harvey of Queen's University Belfast, who leads the BrexitLawNI project, gave his initial tho

Irish law will continue to feel the "gravitational pull" of British jurisprudence after Brexit, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, president of the Law Reform Commission, has said. In a speech to the Law Reform Commission's annual conference yesterday, the retired Supreme Court judge said there were areas of l