29 March. The government today is putting forward a motion to pass part of its withdrawal agreement with the EU, the withdrawal agreement, but not the political declaration. If this passes there will be an extension to exit day to 22 May in accordance with the agreement reached between the PM and the EU last week. If not, exit day will be 12 April unless a further extension is requested by the PM, whoever that may be. In the meantime Parliament votes again on indicative votes on Monday after the failure of any of the proposals put forward on Wednesday to obtain a majority.
MPs voted by 286 to 344 to reject the government’s withdrawal agreement.
9 April. The House of Commons has just approved the government motion that the Prime Minister requests an article 50 extension until 30 June. Leaders of the 27 EU Member States will consider the request tomorrow at the meeting of the Council of Ministers. If there is no unanimous agreement to extend article 50 then the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement on Friday at 11pm.
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Professor Simon Baughen
Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in September 2013 (previously Reader at the University of Bristol Law School). Simon Baughen studied law at Oxford and practised in maritime law for several years before joining academia. His research interests lie mainly in the field of shipping law, but also include the law of trusts and the environmental law implications of the activities of multinational corporations in the developing world. Simon's book on Shipping Law, has run to seven editions (soon to be eight) and is already well-known to academics and students alike as by far the most learned and approachable work on the subject. Furthermore, he is now the author of the very well-established practitioner's work Summerskill on Laytime. He has an extensive list of publications to his name, including International Trade and the Protection of the Environment, and Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs - Closing the Governance Gap. He has also written and taught extensively on commercial law, trusts and environmental law. Simon is a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, a University Research Centre within the School of Law, and he currently teaches at Swansea on the LLM in:Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air; Charterparties Law and Practice; International Corporate Governance.
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