“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door…” These prophetic words of Bilbo Baggins have formed the bedrock of SAGE’s advice over the last 12 weeks, and form the rationale for the majority of the UK workforce working from home.
As the economy continues to suffer from the effects of the pandemic and lockdown, some steps are now being taken in the direction of a resumption of some sort of normality. Over the next few weeks, it is likely that business activity will open up significantly, with construction sites, offices, shops, and eventually even restaurants and pubs, beginning to trade.
The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (‘the Act’) received Royal Assent in June 2018. Litigators and those in the insurance industry have kept a keen eye on the progress of the Act since then.
The refrain that the UK government is “following the science” about Covid-19 will now be familiar. But anyone with familiarity with expert evidence will have, at least, two issues arising from that: What question did they pose to get the advice? and What was the expert reasoning when coming to their conclusion?