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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
23 November 2022
Enough is Nuffield? Cross Class Cram Downs v landlords
The thorny issues of Restructuring Plans, “cross class cram down” and CVAs, have probably been dirty words in commercial landlord circles for some time. Landlords would be forgiven for feeling a bit hard done by too. These flexible restructuring tools, whilst hugely beneficial to struggling companies (like tenants), have been perceived as unfairly prejudicial to landlords’ interests. There is a growing scrapheap of authorities of unsuccessful challenges by landlords that arguably support this view from: JJB Sports plc (CVA)(2009), Debenhams (CVA)(2019) right through to recent examples like Deep Ocean (Restructuring Plan)(Jan 2021), New Look (CVA)(May 2021), Regis (CVA)(May 2021) and Virgin Active (Restructuring Plan)(May 2021).
23 November 2022
Turn the lights out
As winter draws near, the days grow shorter, temperatures dip, and businesses will be turning on the lights longer and the heating up higher; all leading to higher energy bills. But, with continuing volatility in the energy market, how many businesses can afford to do so and will energy bills sound their death knell?
23 November 2022
Removing the façade: A look behind the Building Safety Act 2022
It is five years since the tragic Grenfell disaster but defective cladding/dangerous living conditions and fire safety are still very much hot news. But, you may be asking, why is this relevant to insolvency practitioners?
10 November 2022
Green related lawsuits: the sign of things to come
While world leaders convene in Egypt for Cop 27 to discuss progress on The Paris Agreement, the legally binding international treaty on climate change adopted in 2016, it is easy to think the green agenda is something remote from day-to-day business for UK SME owners.
9 November 2022
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q3 2022
This quarterly civil fraud update provides a summary of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period July - September 2022.
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Claims against banks
- Costs Law
- Court of Protection Disputes
- Cross-border litigation
- Defamation, privacy & reputation
- Fraud
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Intellectual property claims
- Legal updates
- Litigation process
- Professional negligence
- Shareholder and Boardroom Disputes
- Wills, trusts and inheritance disputes