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<p>The ability of individuals to resolve their legal problems is vital to the rule
of law and the government will continue its commitment to maintain access to justice.</p><p>
</p><p>The Political Declaration establishes the parameters of an ambitious, broad
and flexible future partnership between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union
(EU). This includes a commitment to explore options for a new agreement on family
judicial cooperation. It also sets out the ambition for a future security partnership,
which will provide for comprehensive, close, balanced and reciprocal law enforcement
and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.</p><p> </p><p>We have also reached agreement
with the EU on how existing civil and criminal judicial cooperation cases will be
brought to their conclusion in the event that we are unable to reach an agreement
on a satisfactory future relationship at the end of the implementation period.</p><ul><li>On
civil, we have broadly agreed with the EU that if proceedings are started ahead of
the end of the implementation period, they will be concluded under the existing EU
rules and that subsequent judgments in those proceedings will also be enforced.</li></ul><ul><li>On
criminal, any request for judicial cooperation before the end of the Implementation
Period, under the EU measures that remain in force during the IP, will proceed until
it is concluded under the applicable EU rules. This applies both to requests accepted
by the UK and those requests made by the UK to remaining member states.</li></ul>
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