Guidance and regulation

This instrument makes a saving provision to ensure that rights and obligations deriving from the Lugano Convention 2007 and previously saved for legacy cases are not removed from UK law after 31 December 2023.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 15 January 2024

This instrument is to address failures in retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the UK from the EU by amending the domestic legislation which implements a reciprocal arr…

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 10 March 2021

Guidance for people involved in UK-EU cross-border maintenance disputes.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 12 January 2021

• UK-EU cross-border maintenance disputes

  This guidance explains the changes to UK-EU cross-border maintenance…

Guidance for people involved in UK-EU cross-border divorces.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 12 January 2021

Guidance for people involved in UK-EU cross-border disputes about parental responsibility.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 12 January 2021

Guidance for UK lawyers practising in the EU, EEA-EFTA and Switzerland.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 31 December 2020

Guidance for EU, EEA-EFTA and Swiss lawyers in the UK.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 31 December 2020

Check what you need to do if you own a UK legal services business and are a lawyer with qualifications from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 31 December 2020

Guidance for legal professionals about family law disputes involving the EU.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 31 December 2020

Guidance for legal professionals about cross-border civil and commercial legal cases.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 31 December 2020

The Ministry of Justice has partnered with the Law Society and Bar Council to hold a series of webinars discussing legal changes from 1 January 2021.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 8 December 2020

This instrument is made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the Withdrawal Act) to ensure there is a functioning domestic statute book at the end of the transition period.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 2 July 2020

The amendments remove provision in the FPR and COPR which relates to powers, processes and orders under EU instruments or international agreements which will no longer be applicable or available when those instruments or agr…

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 5 March 2019

The amendments remove provision in the CPR which relates to powers, processes and orders under EU instruments or treaties which will no longer be applicable or available when those instruments or treaties are revoked by the …

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 5 March 2019

The amendments to the procedure rules made by these Regulations omit what will become redundant references to legislation that will be repealed or revoked by the Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations…

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 5 March 2019

The purpose of this instrument is to ensure that the European Union (EU) rules that determine the law applicable to contractual and non-contractual obligations continue to operate effectively in domestic law after the UK’s e…

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 22 January 2019

The Criminal Justice (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (“the Criminal Justice SI” or “the SI”) are made using powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“the Act”). Its purpose is to address failures in re…

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 10 December 2018

The Mediation Directive seeks to harmonise certain aspects of mediation in relation to EU cross-border disputes, with the aim of promoting its use in those EU cross-border disputes. A cross-border dispute can be a dispute be…

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 3 December 2018

This instrument revokes the following three Regulations once they have become retained EU law, and variously amends and revokes related EU amending measures and domestic legislation: Regulation (EC) No. 805/2004 of the …

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 27 November 2018

This instrument amends references to “obligations” and “enforceable obligations” under EU law in the Inquiries Act 2005 and the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and amends references to “community obligations” in the Coroners …

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 20 November 2018