TRG UPDATE - July 2020

Welcome to the latest issue of the TRG Update. The pandemic has touched virtually every aspect of our daily lives and it has had potentially significant impacts on commercial contract law. Two of these developments are covered in this Update.

In this edition we feature:

Suspension of termination rights on insolvency
Cabinet Office Guidance on responsible contractual behaviour
Don’t delay if relying upon an indemnity
Failures by procuring body render public sector contract void.

An archive of previous cases featured in our Updates is available here.

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Suspension of termination rights on insolvency

Following public consultation and the UK Government’s response published in August 2018, on 20 May 2020, the Government published the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (“CIGB” or the “Bill”). This Bill, as well as having broader corporate implications, also has significant impacts on commercial contracts ... More>>>

Cabinet Office Guidance on responsible contractual behaviour

Cabinet Office Guidance on responsible contractual behaviour in the performance and enforcement of contracts impacted by the Covid-19 emergency was published on the 7th May and will be reviewed again before 30th June. It suggests that contracting parties should act ‘responsibly and fairly’ in their responses to issues caused by the virus. This phrase appears multiple times in the Guidance (ten times over only five pages) but there is very little detail as to what exactly that would entail. The Guidance does however ... More>>>

Don’t delay if relying upon an indemnity

Towergate v Hopkinson (High Court) [2020]

A recent case in the Court of Appeal has highlighted the importance of strictly adhering to express contractual conditions when seeking to rely on an indemnity clause ... More>>>

Failures by procuring body render public sector contract void.

School Facility Management v Christ the King College ( High Court) [2020]

This case raises potentially very significant concerns for suppliers and service providers to the public sector (and beyond) ... More>>>

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