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‘Best reasonable efforts’: EU and AstraZeneca in dispute over interpretation
Posted: 20/04/2021
Despite AstraZeneca’s amazing success story in developing and manufacturing a vaccine to fight Covid-19, the company has been in the news more recently for a different reason: the disagreement with the EU as to whether AstraZeneca is in breach of its contractual obligations. The EU believes that AstraZeneca has...…>>
Insurers expect to pay up to £2.5 billion for UK insurance due to Covid-19, claims ABI
Posted: 01/04/2021
Insurers have so far paid out £472 million to policyholders who claimed for losses resulting from the closure or partial closure of their businesses in the wake of the pandemic. That figure, however, represents less than the total claim value as estimated by the Association of British Insurers in February 2021 – and the final claim value could...…>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper announces 2021 partner promotions
Posted: 29/03/2021
Top 50 law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has announced its partner promotions for 2021......>>
The house always wins: the re-introduction of the HMRC preference
Posted: 16/02/2021
In measures that came into effect from 1 December 2020, the Finance Act 2020 dictates that for certain debts, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will now rank much further up the chain of creditors when a company enters administration or liquidation. This is a radical change to a process that had...…>>
The phenomenon of mediation: judicial perspectives and eye on the future
Posted: 12/02/2021
How disputes are solved obviously lies right at the very heart of dispute resolution. Almost all cases carry a settlement imperative, at the right time, on the right terms, if that can be achieved. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and mediation in particular, has assumed an ever-increasing importance in dispute resolution, hence this paper...…>>

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