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Businesses in Scotland are experiencing “significant challenges” in exporting goods to the EU as a result of considerable non-tariff barriers which have arisen due to the post-Brexit UK-EU trading relationship, according to a new report by Holyrood's Constitution, Europe, External Affair

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A Holyrood committee is recommending the establishment of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the UK and devolved governments following an inquiry into the changes in devolution post-Brexit. The Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee found that devolution has change

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Women will continue to have the right to equal pay with men even after an EU protection expires at the end of the year, the UK government has confirmed. The law, designed to assist workers whose jobs have been outsourced, was removed in a post-Brexit elimination of EU laws. However, the governm

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New research which will allow Scottish Parliament committees to keep up to date with EU legislative policy developments has been commissioned by Holyrood’s Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. Following Brexit, the Scottish government committed to ‘keeping pace&r

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A webinar series on the EU Settlement Scheme will be held next month. The series, for legal practitioners and other interested professionals, consists of three online sessions covering different aspects of the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), an immigration regime introduced by the Home Office in M

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Deep and wide-ranging concerns have been expressed about a UK bill which will create a ‘legal cliff edge’. These concerns are contained in a new report by the Scottish Parliament’s Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. The report follows the committee’

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Judges in Scotland number alongside more than 11,000 south of the border who will lose pension benefits worth £3.5 billion at the end of this year if the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill passes. The bill, due to be scrutinised in the Lords next week, will revoke almost all law deri

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Migrant care home and agricultural workers will co-create new research to analyse the impact of new visa rules introduced following Brexit. The research aims to show more about living and working conditions of those who arrive in Britain to work on farms and with the elderly.

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The Scottish government's Stay in Scotland campaign has been relaunched with updated resources to help European Union (EU) citizens living in Scotland access and prove their immigration status online using the UK government’s ‘view and prove’ service. The Scottish government said i

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A series of three briefing papers on the Scottish Parliament’s consideration of proposals to amend retained EU law in devolved areas is now available. The papers have been written by Dr Robert Brett Taylor and Professor Adelyn L M Wilson of the University of Aberdeen as part of a Scottish Parl

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The UK is set to depart from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a move with implications for post-Brexit data transfers between the UK and the European Union. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden yesterday announced plans to "[reform] our own data laws so that they're based on common sense,

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European citizens are being detained and threatened with deportation, despite having applied for settled status – contrary to the Brexit withdrawal agreement. The Home Office has served EU nationals removal directions even though they could prove they had applied for settled status.

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The UK government has set out plans for a new post-Brexit subsidy control system that will allow public authorities – including the devolved administrations – to provide direct support to businesses in line with strategic goals. The Subsidy Control Bill, introduced to Westminster today,

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