Covid-19: Furlough FAQs
Monday, 01 June 2020
ONE MILLION businesses are using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to fund the wages of 7.5 million employees at a cost to the government of £12bn a month. The scheme, under which employers may apply for government grants equivalent to 80% of furloughed employees’ pay, has been a lifeline to firms in peril as a
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Supreme Court decision restricts Insurers’ exposure to non-party costs orders
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Travelers Insurance Ltd v XYZ Supreme Court decision restricts Insurers’ exposure to non-party costs orders On 30 October 2019, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Travelers Insurance Co Ltd v XYZ and set out helpful guidance as to circumstances in which liability insurers may be susceptible to non-party costs orders being made against
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UK: Court of Appeal restates the law of fraudulent misrepresentation and the principle of transferred loss
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Nederlandse Industrie Van Eiprodukten v RembrandtEnterprises Inc [2019] EXCA Civ 596 Court of Appeal restates the law of fraudulent misrepresentation and the principle of transferred loss This appeal raised two important issues in relation to fraudulent misrepresentation and the scope of the principle of ‘transferred loss’. Background The case arose out of the avian flu
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