CHAPTER THREE – DEALING WITH A REQUEST TO WORK FROM HOME – FORMAL FLEXIBLE WORKING REQUESTS Introduction As a result of the situation with Covid-19 large parts of the UK working population ended up working from home out of necessity without having made any request to do so. This is […]
CHAPTER ONE – OVERVIEW OF THE CORONAVIRUS ACT AND REGULATIONS This Chapter provides an overview of the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the corresponding English and Welsh Regulations, from a criminal law perspective. It sets out the key differences between them. It also considers what might constitute a ‘reasonable excuse’ under both […]
CHAPTER ONE – AN INTRODUCTION TO EXPERT EVIDENCE What is expert evidence? Expert evidence is evidence of opinion falling outside the experience of a judge or jury. This contrasts with non-expert evidence that goes to matters of fact. The oft quoted judgement of King CJ in the South Australian case of […]
CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION I had been expecting the e-mail but, when it came, I was a little surprised by the content which said something like: ‘Why can’t you understand that the government’s order banning events is obviously force majeure. The courts will definitely agree with me so why can’t you!’ […]
CHAPTER ONE – LEASES IN UNCERTAIN TIMES – IDENTIFYING THE ISSUES Covid-19 The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown upon the commercial property world has been sudden, dramatic and wide-ranging, and what the landscape will look like in, say, two years’ time, is impossible to know. The retail, […]
CHAPTER ONE – PLANNING APPLICATIONS AND PERMISSIONS Backlog of applications and appeals Under the new “flexibility” regulations under the Coronavirus Act 2020 allowing for remotely held Council meetings, planning decisions are still being made by local authority planning committees, see now the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility […]
CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION Congratulations. If you are reading this then you have not been taken out by the Zombie apocalypse raging all around us at present. However it may be that you are the last human left on earth. If so double congratulations as you will have this book […]
CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION “It is highly unlikely that people can contract Covid-19 from food or food packaging” (WHO/FAO Interim Guidance 7th April 2020). If so, what is the point of a book on Covid-19 and the law relating to food? The answer probably lies in the fact that there […]
CHAPTER ONE – BACKGROUND TO THE COMPENSATION RECOVERY UNIT In Parry v Cleaver [1970] A.C. 1, Lord Reid identified two salient questions about how a Plaintiff (now Claimant) should be compensated: “First, what did the plaintiff lose as a result of the accident? What are the sums which he would have […]
CHAPTER ONE – COSTS & FUNDING Introduction Improving results through avoiding ambiguity and adopting a planned approach to managing your caseload remains one of the central themes of this book. This chapter considers why it is essential to get the funding options right at the start of the case in order […]
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