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Public Law weekly highlights—29 November 2018

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Published on: 29 November 2018

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This week’s edition of Public Law highlights includes selected Brexit headlines and legislation updates, including an examination of the political declaration of the future UK-EU relationship and the latest updates on the Withdrawal Agreement including the government’s economic analysis and the European Commission’s Q&A on the rights of UK and EU citizens, Brexit case law developments, plus all the latest Brexit SI updates. Also in this edition, analysis on the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018, the second part of our review of public sector equality duties in the UK, updates on the UK’s accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, a new procurement policy note on e-invoicing, commentary on the Court of Justice order discontinuing the Commission’s application against Ireland for failure to recoup aid granted to Apple, amendments to guidelines for examination of State aid to the fishery and aquaculture sectors, a consultation on free trade with New Zealand and analysis of new EU rules for the free flow...

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