Parliament now has to vote on Brexit. How will recent Brexit
developments affect your business?
The High Court has ruled that Parliament must now vote on
triggering the mechanism to leave the E.U. Sterling spiked upwards
in response. The Government has stated that it will appeal. In the
meantime, Teresa May has given her first keynote speech on worker
rights under Brexit; and the Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport
has confirmed that "it will be expected and quite normal
for us to opt into" the new EU Data Protection Rules in
the meantime.
So what does this all mean for UK employers?
Impact of High Court judgement
We think there are good prospects of this going immediately to
the Supreme Court; and fair prospects of the Government losing all
over again. It has already proven a tough task to argue that the
Government can unilaterally overrule Acts of Parliament, never mind
the suggestion that we are dealing with a treaty and so the Royal
Prerogative can be
