That is a very interesting set of questions. I am not sure that we have long enough to explore them all sufficiently deeply. Let us give it a shot, however.
As Mr Campbell has indicated, there is provision in the law at the moment for intra-UK transfers; we have a set of qualified lawyers assessments, which allow lawyers from all parts of the United Kingdom, such as barristers and solicitors from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, to requalify into Scotland. That has been a very settled part of the law for a considerable period of time. In fact, I remember dealing with the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill, which was enacted in 1990 and which contained provisions about intra-UK transfers.
I am not sure to what extent the proposed consultation on mutual recognition and international qualifications will apply to the legal profession. That is still to be provided: the consultation has not been issued. There is a one-paragraph reference to the matter in the white paper on the internal market. It is therefore probably inopportune to dip into that to see whether there is an issue that is germane to your question about conflict.
There may be conflicts, depending on what the internal market bill provides. We know that the UK Government wants to ensure that there is a market access provision, determined by the two principles of mutual recognition and non-discrimination, which will apply to both goods and services.
Services are currently governed by the service regulation, which is part of and is fully adopted into UK law. It does not matter what services we are talking about. They could include accountancy services or services of other descriptions—information technology services might be a popular pick, for example. There are people providing video-screen services, and so on—all of these platforms that we now use might become subject to the provisions.
Is there potential for a conflict? Well, that depends on what EU law determines to do in the future, and on what Scottish ministers, seeing that EU law, decide to do in terms of implementation under the continuity bill. That is as far as I can go at the moment, without entering into vast realms of speculation, but I think that that is where things lie.
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