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Commentary on the House of Commons Justice Committee Report on implications of Brexit for the justice system

Date:27 MAR 2017
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David Hodson analyses and comments upon the Parliamentary reports published this past week on the implications of Brexit for the justice system. The House of Commons report is carefully worded and recommends retention of a system for mutual recognition and enforcement of judgements.  David Hodson makes a plea that with the publication of these reports family lawyers like the rest of the country should move on from the pro remain or pro leave agendas and work to the best of national and global family law in the future.

On Wednesday 22 March 2017 a week before the UK gives notice under Article 50 of the intention to leave the European Union the House of Commons Justice committee produced its report on the implications of Brexit for the justice system. This followed several months of taking evidence oral and written and detailed consideration by a number of MPs. My firm iFLG was pleased to give written evidence and our submissions were favourably quoted by the committee in the report as was Kingsley Napley and several barristers. Two days earlier a...

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