Brexit – what rights have we really acquired?

When the UK joined the EU, British people got some new rights – for instance, to live and work in other member states – which they had never had before. British businesses gained new rights too, providing goods and services without being impeded by tariffs or measures of similar effect.

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Brexit – what does it mean for the City?

The UK’s financial services sector generates around 7% of GDP, pays about £60bn per year in tax, directly employs about 1.1m people, and makes a significant contribution to sustaining another million jobs in associated sectors such as accountancy, management consultancy and law.

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Limitation period on a counterclaim – section 35 Limitation Act 1980

A party brings a claim within the limitation period, but can the defendant counterclaim, even though the limitation period for their own claim expired before the claimant’s claim was issued? In Al-Rawas v Hassan Khan & Co (a firm) [2017] EWCA Civ 42, the Court of Appeal considered the effect of s. 35 of the Limitation Act 1980 on the limitation period of an original set off or counterclaim and ruled that the answer to the question was “no”.

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Commercial Bar Association – The Brexit Papers

A series of papers on the effect of Brexit on many areas of commercial practice

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Barbara Zeitler will give a talk – ‘Le BREXIT : quelles consequences politiques et juridiques au Royaume-Uni ?’

Rendez-vous d’Europe 2017 - Rennes

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Airbnb users’ accident: gig economy back in the spotlight

It seems that the legal implications of the so-called gig economy could be tested again, just a month after the Employment Tribunal considered that Uber,...

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