Key COVID-19 issues facing the corporate, commercial and employment sectors.
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Article 24/09/2021
The relaxation in restrictions that currently prevent companies from being wound up by creditors for non-payment of a debt (in certain circumstances), under emergency COVID-19 legislation, comes to an end on 30 September 2021.
Article 17/09/2021
The FCA test case is widely regarded as having resolved a plethora of issues in COVID-19 business interruption claims. Unsurprisingly, it did not resolve everything and certain issues were not tackled as part of or fully resolved by that case.
Article 17/09/2021
2020 was a year of significant upheaval and development in the employment sphere (not only from the COVID-19 perspective) and 2021 is proving no different with both substantive law reform and long-planned developments. As the pandemic unfolds and Australia races to counter lockdowns with vaccines, the latter part of 2021 promises further significant developments for employers, varying from COVID-19 relief measures, managing the return to the workplace and integrating new anti-discrimination protections.
Article 15/09/2021
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 2,000 lawsuits have been filed in federal and state courts throughout the United States by policyholders affected by the public health crisis. In the vast majority of these cases, business owners have sought coverage under commercial property policies for losses arising out of interruptions caused by local and state-wide shutdowns.
Article 13/09/2021
Millions of people have migrated from working in traditional office settings to working from their own living rooms.
Article 06/08/2021
In our earlier updates on this subject we reported that the UK Government was planning to introduce a compulsory arbitration scheme to deal with arrears of rent that fell due during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those plans took a step closer to becoming reality on 4 August 2021, following the release of a full policy statement from the Government, confirming its intention to legislate for the scheme
Article 09/07/2021
Anyone working in financial services will know something of the dramatic impact that IT and communications systems failures can have on their work. The inexorable rise in cyber attacks, set against the total reliance on these systems for staff working from home in recent times has brought these issues even more sharply into focus.
Article 09/07/2021
A summary of recent developments in the real estate sector impacted by COVID-19 including landlord and tenant impacts and the future of the workspace, the implications of the increasing use of drones, and the impact of Japanese knotweed in UK property transactions.
Article 06/07/2021
Prior to 2020, remote or virtual hearings in international arbitration were a limited if not unknown phenomenon. It was relatively common for interim procedural hearings to be heard in the form of telephone conferences. Also, sometimes witnesses might join a hearing by video link. However, to most arbitration practitioners, the idea of a substantive hearing being entirely heard by video link would have been a novelty.
Article 25/06/2021
Over the past year, we have considered the government measures brought in to support tenants and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
