Introduction To The ThinkHouse Brexit Series (Video)

• Published date: 11 May 2020
• Author: Mr Michael Luckman
• Subject Matter: Corporate/Commercial Law, Government, Public Sector, Corporate and Company Law, Contracts and Commercial Law, Constitutional & Administrative Law
• Law Firm: Gowling WLG

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Transcript

Michael Luckman: Well hello and thank you for joining our first ever remote ThinkHouse. I am expecting this will be what can only be described as interesting, which will match obviously the interesting times in which we find ourselves. I would just like to make a few introductory comments.

Firstly, I would really like to say thank you to everyone for your support of ThinkHouse, it was a real disappointment for us to have cancelled the physical event but the feedback you gave us was tremendous both about our decision but also about your keenness that we should present the material in a different format because you would have found it so interesting. So this is our attempt to meet that demand.

Secondly, please forgive the format, it is fair to say and I suspect like all of us really we have been patching a few things together and have put this format together, a bit like a Heath Robinson affair, might be a bit clunky but it does seem to be working and I give praise to the gods of IT that our business seems to be holding itself together pretty well. Please also forgive the informality of the speakers, we are all at home and spread out over the country and so please I hope don't be too harsh in judging on our pyjamas or our wallpaper as we sit here presenting. One of the advantages of doing a remote event is that I don't have to give any fire emergency notice but of course you might like to check that you haven't left your kettle on or deep fat fryer.

Obviously on the Brexit topics we have got a series of very interesting areas to discuss, we will be looking at the UK/EU Free Trade Agreement discussions and how of...