Good News for Claimants in Construction Adjudication
28 July 2020
Scottish appeal court agrees that unenforceable parts of an adjudicator’s decision can be ‘severed off’
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Holiday time? New Moratorium Rules for Companies
24 July 2020
One innovation introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 is the new moratorium procedure for companies in financial distress. The intention is to give company directors time to try to turn their business around before it enters an insolvency procedure, by giving the company a payment holiday.
COVID-19 - The ‘New Normal’ Risk for Business
22 July 2020
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released its annual figures for the number of UK work-related fatalities in 2019/20. The headline grabbing figure is that for the period from April 2019 to March 2020 there were 111 work-related fatalities - the lowest number since records began.
The End of Privacy Shield
17 July 2020
A decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union has struck down Privacy Shield as an appropriate mechanism for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US, effectively prohibiting the transfer of data under the Privacy Shield framework (Facebook Ireland and Schrems, C-311/18).
Credit Hire Intervention Letters – A View from the North
17 July 2020
For Scottish solicitors representing insurers in credit hire claims, it can be difficult explaining to clients south of the border the current landscape in Scotland when it comes to credit hire. Despite a significant credit hire market existing north of the border, credit hire litigation in Scotland has produced very little by way of useful authority on the big issues.