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The Government has given its formal backing to a joint initiative of The Bar of Ireland, the Law Society and the wider legal community in promoting Ireland as a post-Brexit centre for international legal services. The initiative, also supported by IDA Ireland, will now form part of the Government's

Up to 1,000 police officers from England and Scotland are being trained for possible deployment to Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit, The Guardian reports. The move was requested by the PSNI in anticipation of potential unrest about border arrangements that could be put in place if t

Section 17 of the Scottish Parliament's ‘Brexit Bill’ – which requires Scottish Ministers’ consent to certain subordinate legislation – is ultra vires of the Scotland Act, which it would modify, though the bill is not entirely outwith the devolved legislature's competen

Probation services north and south of the border discussed the challenges of Brexit at this year's annual cross-border Public Protection Advisory Group (PPAG) seminar. This year's theme, “New Challenges and New Solutions across the Criminal Justice System, North and South”, provided an o

The Department of Justice and Equality is examining the implications of Brexit for extraditions between Ireland and the UK, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has announced. Mr Flanagan said the "necessity to maintain a functioning system of extradition" between the two countries was the "key priorit

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