U.K. Lawyers Both Disappointed and Delighted With Post-Brexit Access
- Johnson says deal gives market access to British attorneys
- Law Society says agreement eliminates uncertainty of ‘no deal’
The ‘Lady of Justice’ on top of The Old Bailey in London. Britain’s legal services industry accounts for 552,000 full-time employees and was worth almost 60 billion pounds in 2018.
Photographer: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images
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The last-minute Brexit deal gave some guarantees that U.K. lawyers will still be able to practice in Europe and maintained some cooperation on law enforcement issues.
While Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in an interview with the Telegraph that the agreement “perhaps does not go as far as we would like” for some financial services, he lauded the “access for solicitors, barristers.”