A significant number of businesses have faced closure and/or extensive disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Business terms and conditions are a vital framework setting out how commercial transactions will take place and what is expected of each party.
They contain the detailed terms that will accompany a contract, providing the signatories with the rules that will govern their commercial relationship.

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With the impact of COVID-19, there will inevitably be a rise in businesses or individuals engaged in insolvency procedures. We set out below some of the most commonly used insolvency terms.

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On 28 March 2020, the government announced that they would temporarily suspend the wrongful trading provisions for three months, with the changes applying retrospectively from 1 March 2020.

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In the current climate, with the increase in remote working even prior to Covid-19, this question is likely to arise frequently and is one we have already had to consider in the context of a members voluntary liquidation.

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On 17 March 2020 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Steve Barclay, announced that the proposed extension to the Off Payroll Working Rules (IR35) would be postponed by 12 months to April 2021 while businesses cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The ‘Off-Payroll Working Rules’ (the Rules) that currently apply to the public sector are to be extended to medium-to-large private sector organisations from 6 April 2020.

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Last year saw the largest fine in recent years for breach of data protection legislation.

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Theresa May has now triggered Article 50, notifying of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, but what impact will that have on trade marks?

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Where an insolvent corporate franchisee is about to close its business, franchisors may look for a potential solution to try to retain goodwill in the brand in that particular territory...

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