CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
In these uncertain times we want to let all our clients and contacts know we are still very much open for business and are here to offer support and guidance to you over the next few months.
We appreciate that it’s a difficult time for most people and with the news and advice changing daily, there’s also a lot of uncertainty for businesses and individuals, so we have created a Coronavirus/COVID-19 information hub of useful guidance from across all areas of the firm providing business advice and FAQs to help you over the coming months.
This will be regularly updated as the situation evolves.
Message from our Managing Partner, Rhodri Davey:
The virus will have a profound impact on trade given the lockdowns, quarantines, social distancing and travel bans.
How COVID-19 could affect contractual obligationsYou can’t go on holiday, you can’t have your wedding reception and that holiday cottage you’ve booked for the week is no longer an option because you are...
The government has today issued guidance which is that children under the age of 18 can travel between parents for the purposes of child arrangements. This guidance may change if further restrictions on movement and travel are announced. Please check the government website for the latest guidance.
You should bear in...
It is inevitable that certain employed and self-employed individuals are going to be losing some or all of their earned income as a consequence of the CV-19 outbreak.
It is likely that many of these affected individuals have a legal responsibility to make child maintenance payments to either their former spouses...
Prohibition on Forfeiture
The Act provides that a “right of re-entry or forfeiture, under a relevant business tenancy, for non payment of rent may not be enforced, by action or otherwise, during the Relevant Period.”
For the purposes of the Act, the Relevant Period means the day beginning with the day the...
Landlords can still send statutory notices (section 8 and section 21 notices) to quit during the crisis. For both section 8 (regardless of the ground relied upon) and section 21 notices (no fault notices), the landlord must...
During the current Coronavirus Crisis some parents whose children are the subject of Child Arrangements Orders made by the Family Court have been understandably concerned about their ability to meet the requirements of these court orders safely in the wholly unforeseen circumstances that now apply. This short statement is intended...
On 28th March 2020, the Government announced a number of temporary measures to improve the insolvency regime, in order to help businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis. Including the suspension of wrongful trading provisions and other changes to insolvency rules.
The purpose of the proposed changes to insolvency rules is to...
In light of COVID-19 if you have a retail, hospitality or leisure business in Devon or Cornwall, you should be entitled to’ ‘small business grant’ of £10,000 if your business premises has a rateable value of less than £15,000 or £25,000 or if your business premises has a rateable value...
Our offices remain closed, but business, and excellent client service, continues. Following the Government’s more recent advice and guidance regarding COVID-19, all ...
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