Draft Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment Etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice
Yasmin Qureshi Portrait Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East) (Lab)
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma.

We will not seek to divide the Committee on the regulations. As the Minister set out, they are very much needed if we Brexit without a deal. This is a very narrow statutory instrument covering an important aspect of family law, so we welcome it.

I place on record my thanks to family law lawyers and to the Law Society. We consulted the Law Society, and it indicated that it accepted the necessity for this statutory instrument.