Many businesses will have insurance to pay losses when their business is interrupted by an unforeseen event. This extends in some cases to illness and we set out below some areas for businesses to consider as they grapple with the current unprecedented challenge of coronavirus.

As the Coronavirus crisis forces businesses to adapt, reports are filtering through of a number making a series of easily avoidable mistakes either in pursuit of their bottom line; an effort to capitalise on a sales opportunity; or by simple carelessness.

Whilst most businesses are understandably husbanding every penny and looking to cut costs to survive the coronavirus crisis, you must be strategic about your survival tactics. If not, you may find that your actions mean that you have no business left after the crisis has abated.

The Government has announced extra protection for businesses by placing a moratorium on commercial landlords’ sanctions for at least three months so that those who cannot pay their rent because of cashflow difficulties related to the coronavirus will be protected from eviction.

The payment of dividends is generally a good indicator of the financial health of a business. Dividends represent a way of returning income on an investment, but that is not all they are used for.

These are challenging times for the construction sector. Some sites remain open, others have been temporarily closed. This article seeks to provide both a legal and practical guide to ways to minimise risk under the JCT DB Sub form of sub-contract in relation to the impact of the coronavirus.

Now that the World Health Organisation has declared the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) a global health emergency, we consider the impact on businesses that may be affected and what companies should be looking at in order to protect their operations.

Each tech company will have their own way of managing disputes, and each individual supply contract will be probably be on differing terms all the way up and down the chain

In English law, to make a valid will, a testator must have their signature to it witnessed by two adult independent witnesses. The current social distancing measures together with self-isolation to protect the particularly elderly and vulnerable, therefore present a challenge for private client practitioners: how do we ensure that wills are valid when we can’t stand within 2 metres of one another?