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The view from outside – the week in review 8 – 14 July 2019

Matrix’s Legal Support Service will provide The view from outside, a weekly look at the UK’s relationship with the outside world.

By Legal Support Service · On July 15, 2019

UK in Strasbourg

Sam Hallam and Victor Nealon, who both served long sentences before their convictions were overturned, have taken their fight for compensation to the European Court of Human Rights.

UK & other courts

According to Campaign Against Arms Trade, the Government has applied for a stay of last month’s judgment that British arms sales to Saudi Arabia are unlawful pending an appeal.

UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU

Boris Johnson has promised to get the UK ‘match fit’ to leave the EU without a deal if he becomes Prime Minister – as MPs prepared a fresh attempt to thwart his plans. He has insisted he is ‘not bluffing’ about a no deal Brexit amid warnings from two Cabinet ministers – Philip Hammond and Scottish Secretary David Mundell – that pursuing such a course would crash the pound and threaten the union.

John McDonnell has piled pressure on Jeremy Corbyn for Labour to back Remain in a second referendum ‘sooner rather than later’.

Jeremy Hunt has stated that he will not let close ally Amber Rudd join his Cabinet if she refuses to sign up to plans for a no-deal Brexit.

Dominic Grieve has unveiled a plan to try and prevent Boris Johnson suspending Parliament to push a no-deal Brexit in the face of MPs’ opposition. MPs voted 294-293 in favour of his amendment.

Whitehall’s top mandarins are infuriated at the way they are coming under increasing attack by some politicians and sections of the media amid the heated political climate unleashed by Brexit.

Former prime minister Sir John Major has told the BBC he would seek a judicial review in the courts if the new prime minister tried to suspend Parliament to deliver a no-deal Brexit.

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