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The applicants, who had all been arrested pursuant to European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) before 31 December 2020, failed in their applications for writs of habeas corpus. Their applications had been made on a single common ground: that, since 11 pm on 31 December 2020, the end of the transition period defined by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU and Euratom, there was no longer any legal basis in international law for their surrender; and that in consequence there was no basis in domestic law for continued detention or for the maintenance of bail conditions. In di...

New laws regulating water usage by businesses and other heavy users are not strict enough and will allow many operate under the radar.

coastal work to combat erosion, for example, moles and jetties Screening by Determination MMO to assess a project and decide whether an EIA is necessary. This will result in a screening opinion being provided to the applicant. Screening by determination may be a result of a request from an applicant. Alternatively, if MMO considers that the proposed project has the potential to require an EIA, the application will be placed on hold and the applicant will be directed to request a screening opinion. MMO cannot deal with the marine licence application until the screening opinion (or screenin...

Aude Cefaliello The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) represents ‘gig’ workers. At the end of November the High Court of England and Wales ruled, in its favour, that the government of the United Kingdom had failed adequately to transpose two European Union occupational health-and-safety directives into domestic law. The ‘Framework Directive’ 89/391/EEC, on measures to encourage improvement in workers’ health and safety at work, is the cornerstone of the OSH regime in the EU, providing principles of prevention with which employers are charged. Among them is the obl...

European rivers are fragmented by over one million barriers Healthy rivers are flowing rivers, say researchers. Europe’s main rivers coloured by basins. Thickness is proportional to stream order. Credit: EEA, Copenhagen, 2012. Free-flowing rivers are crucial harbingers and guardians of life. They not only provide humans with clean water for drinking, agriculture, and other economic activities, they also house around 40% of the world’s species of fish. However, Europe’s rivers have become increasingly constricted due to dams, as well as many smaller, less visible barriers that, neverthe...