United Kingdom: Litigation, Contracts and Force Majeure

On 9 April 2024, the Home Office issued guidance for handling immigration applications affected by the Coronavirus Extension Concession and Exceptional Assurance Concession. The guidance clarifies how these concessions apply to entry clearance, permission to stay, and settlement, ensuring applicants are not penalized for pandemic-related overstays.

The Court of Appeal dismissed both the policyholder's and insurers' appeals in Various Eateries Trading Limited v Allianz...

In the latest episode of our public law podcast, Andrew Lidbetter, Nusrat Zar and Anna Eliasson discuss the scope for regulators to go back on concessions...

Over five years since the first Covid lockdown, James Walters and Amy Russell-Hughes reflect on the pandemic's impact on workplace practices.

The recent decision of Henshaw J in Bunge S.A v Pan Ocean Co. Ltd. (The "Sagar Ratan") [2025] EWHC 193 (Admiralty) analyses issues that often arise out of shipping delays caused by infectious diseases.

With two new variants, the number of cases rising globally and experts claiming the UK is in the middle of another covid wave, covid is back in the headlines. We look at the current government...

From the outset of lockdown regulations in England on 26 March 2020, breaches have been punishable with a fine, and subject to a system of FPNs, by which a prosecution could be avoided if a fixed sum is paid within 28 days, ...

The European Council's Data Protection Day is on 28 January. COVID-19, the gig economy and technological advances are all key data protection topics for the year ahead.

Research by law firm BLM into potential misuse of coronavirus fiscal support schemes has revealed that by the close of June 2021, HM Revenues & Customers (HMRC)...

The British Business Bank's ("BBB") Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme ("CBILS") was first introduced in April 2021. The new iteration of the Scheme, the Recovery Loan Scheme ("RLS")...

The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in unprecedented shocks to the world economy and a particularly hard hit to the global oil market.

This included building the business around future demand, developing new online opportunities and focussing on sustainability.