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An overview of practical considerations for directors and companies on exiting lockdown successfully.

In light of the ongoing impact of COVID-19, we have already provided a series of articles and other material on what is meant by force majeure and frustration?

The question supposes that arbitration is sick. In the case of Domestic English Arbitration, it has been ailing for some time. The Arbitration 1996 (“the Act”) is a good statute. It was meant to cure arbitration in England and Wales. It didn’t.

Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire have been urged to take advice as soon as possible to make sure they are on a sound legal and financial footing as Covid-19 support starts to be phased out.

When the prospect of lockdown in the UK started to look like a reality, much was written and discussed about the flood of insolvencies that would inevitably follow. Whilst most office based professional service businesses could probably adapt with staff working from home, how could shops and restaurants possibly survive this?

A special TinaTalks that focuses on furlough and what the end of the scheme will mean to assist those of you who may currently have concerns as to the "next steps", as it were.

Making ill-judged decisions under pressure are perhaps inevitable. Nonetheless, anyone advising Liverpool Football Club on how to manage their reputation would hopefully not have recommended that they seek to furlough ordinary staff while its playing staff remained on full salaries.

Work on site has resumed. But many Directors, Executives, Managers and Head Office based personnel remain working at home.

Headlines in today’s Daily Mail stated that “2.4M Caught in Covid Cancer Backlog”. It claimed that ‘screening checks, hospital appointments and vital treatment lost during the pandemic’ and was based on figures from Cancer Research UK.