Exiting The EU: The flaw in the Brexit white paper

The government’s failure to address the issue of purposive construction in its plan for the Great Repeal Bill will lead to uncertainty and a wave of litigation after Brexit, warns Sandy Kemp ‘Applying a purposive construction has led to significant differences of outcome, including a reversal of what decisions would have been using the standard …
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Territorial Jurisdiction: Location, location, location

Emma Naughton examines two recent cases on the tricky issue of which country’s courts have jurisdiction to hear an international worker’s employment claims ‘The tribunal had not afforded enough weight to the documented fact that both Mr Green and SIG had agreed that his contract should be governed by English law.’As the workforce continues to …
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