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Guidance for people involved in UK-EU cross-border divorces.
This guidance explains the changes to UK-EU cross-border divorce cases…
Guidance for EU, EEA-EFTA and Swiss lawyers in the UK.
If you are practising in Scotland, you should contact relevant Scottish…
This Statutory Instrument (SI) to be made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 will ensure that the UK is ready, after Brexit, to apply the 2007 Hague Convention on the international recovery of maintenance.
Check what you need to do if you own a UK legal services business and are a lawyer with qualifications from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
This instrument makes a saving provision to ensure that rights and obligations deriving from the Lugano Convention 2007 and previously saved for legacy cases are not removed from UK law after 31 December 2023.
The purpose of this instrument is to ensure that the European Union (EU) rules that determine the law applicable to contractual and non-contractual obligations continue to operate effectively in domestic law after the UK’s e…
The Mutual Recognition of Protection Measures in Civil Matters (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 amend Regulation (EU) 606/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on mutual recognition of prot…
Guidance for legal professionals about cross-border civil and commercial legal cases.
Guidance for legal professionals about family law disputes involving the EU.
Guidance for people involved in UK-EU cross-border maintenance disputes.
Guidance for UK lawyers practising in the EU, EEA-EFTA and Switzerland.
This instrument is made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the Withdrawal Act) to ensure there is a functioning domestic statute book at the end of the transition period.
The Ministry of Justice has partnered with the Law Society and Bar Council to hold a series of webinars discussing legal changes from 1 January 2021.
Guidance for people involved in UK-EU cross-border disputes about parental responsibility.
This Statutory Instrument revokes Regulation 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matt…
This instrument amends references to “obligations” and “enforceable obligations” under EU law in the Inquiries Act 2005 and the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and amends references to “community obligations” in the Coroners …
The amendments remove provision in the CPR which relates to powers, processes and orders under EU instruments or treaties which will no longer be applicable or available when those instruments or treaties are revoked by the …
The amendments remove provision in the FPR and COPR which relates to powers, processes and orders under EU instruments or international agreements which will no longer be applicable or available when those instruments or agr…
The amendments to the procedure rules made by these Regulations omit what will become redundant references to legislation that will be repealed or revoked by the Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations…
This Statutory Instrument (SI) to be made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 will ensure that the UK is ready, after Brexit, to apply the 2005 Hague Convention on choice of court agreements.
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