EU Law

The Supreme Court allows the appeal of Mr Adil Shah from the Court of Appeal's decision in Shah and Patel v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 2028 [2018] 2 All ER 1093.Mr Shah, a Pakistani national, is the primary carer of hi... Read more  

I have written previously about the 23 July 2019 decision of Lavender J. in Gray v Hurley [2019] EWHC 1972 (QB), in which the English court was asked by an English domiciled claimant to grant an anti-suit injunction to stop proceedings taking place i... Read more  

Timothy Lyons QC's article 'VAT in the UK after Brexit' has been published in Belgian journal Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Recht.Please click here to view the article (please note that a subscription is required). Read more  

On 5 December 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") handed down its judgment in the interesting case of Ordre des avocate du barreau de Dinant v JN (Case C-421/18). This ruling considered whether a claim by a bar association for a... Read more  

As part of 39 Essex Chambers preparations for Brexit, Christopher Staker, Katherine Apps, Hannah McCarthy and Ruth Keating were called to the Irish Bar at the Supreme Court of Ireland on 11 October 2019. They have rights of audience in all Irish cour... Read more  

Timothy Lyons QC will be speaking at the Benelux STEP Conference, titled 'Private clients – Living and Dying in the EU' on Friday 11th October 2019.Please click here for more information and to register attendance. Read more  

Christopher Staker, Katherine Apps and Hannah McCarthy have all passed the Irish Aptitude Test for Qualified Lawyers from EU Member States which entitles them to be called to the Irish Bar. Read more  

On 29 July 2019, the CJEU handed down its ruling in Case C-451/18 Tibor-Trans Fuvarozó és Kereskedelmi Kft-v- DAF Trucks NV,  which deals with the important question of where is the "place where the harmful event occurred" for the purposes of the s... Read more  

Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho is to speak at the EU Competition Law Summer School 2019, which is to be held from 5 – 9 August 2019 at Downing College, Cambridge.Kelly will speak on Day 4, giving a review of key principles of State aid and will also partic... Read more  

Tempus Energy filed a judicial review claim against BEIS, alleging that it had failed to suspend the Capacity Market, despite the EU General Court's annulment of the European Commission's 2014 decision that the arrangements complied with State aid la... Read more