The County Court delivered the first decision concerning the interaction between the 2017 Electronic Communications Code (“ECC” or “Code”) and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (“LTA 1954”) in Vodafone Limited v Hanover Capital Limited [2020].
The ECC sets out ‘transitional provisions’ for subsisting Code Agreements that were entered into between parties before the 2017 Digital Economy Act came
On 18 September 2020, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (‘BEIS’) announced that the UK’s register of company information (‘Companies House’) will be reformed to clamp down on fraud and money laundering. This follows the consultation on the options to enhance the role of Companies House and increase the transparency of UK corporate entities published in May 2019.
The summer months saw a number of significant construction cases being published, covering topical issues such as the validity of notices served on closed offices during ‘lockdown’, to questions which have been around for longer, like the exploration of principles under the Construction Act.
This roundup looks at a handful of the key cases from the last few months, and
The stay on possession proceedings ended on Sunday 20 September 2020. Possession proceedings which were sent to Court during the stay will now be issued and ongoing proceedings can recommence. However, it is anticipated that there is going to be a significant backlog of cases for the courts to determine.
On 27 March 2020, in response to the COVID-19
On 24 September 2020, the Cabinet Office announced that businesses seeking to win government work must set out how they will also deliver social value priorities, following new measures which will come into force on 1st January 2021. Social value is the term used to describe the additional value created in the delivery of a contract which has a
Employment partner, Julie Bann, sets out how the new Job Support Scheme will work from 1 November.
Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a new scheme to subsidise wages was cautiously welcomed yesterday.
Mr Sunak explained that the primary aim of the scheme is to support people’s jobs but he argued that the way in which we achieve that must evolve.
