Why this top QC wants a quick Brexit

Matthew Partridge talks to Martin Howe QC, of Lawyers for Britain, about some of the legal questions surrounding Brexit.

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Legal challenges are unlikely to stop Britain from leaving the EU.
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Brexit is throwing up a huge number of legal issues everything from divorce payments to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice during a transition period. And one person who has been closely engaged with the debate from a legal perspective is the barrister, Martin Howe, QC. Howe is the head of 8 New Square, a specialist intellectual property chambers, is an expert in EU law, and is chair of the pressure group Lawyers for Britain.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

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