Debt recovery: How should businesses tailor strategies during coronavirus
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Many #creditors are being hit by the challenges created by the coronavirus. They must know how to maintain their #income when many customers are struggling.
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Clarke Willmott works with Somerset care group to support NHS
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Our Taunton team have been working with a Somerset care home group to support the NHS by putting in place arrangements in respect of a former care home to enable the local authority to use it as an intermediate care facility.
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Employer’s duty of care during the coronavirus crisis
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If the current lockdown extends much further, homeworking may require a health and safety analysis. From one’s workstation to the need for regular breaks, employees will be advised on how to avoid risks.
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Would a refusal to mediate be reasonable in context of coronavirus?
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The court has recently provided some interesting guidance in relation to an unreasonable refusal to mediate in the case of BXB v Watch Tower and Bible Tract Society of Pennsylvania and the Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (2020).
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Frustration will only apply if your contract does not already deal with such unforeseen events (force majeure) and only if the unforeseen event is not caused by either party’s conduct.
A medical negligence claim for an infected cat bite – A case study
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We were instructed to assist with a claim for an infected cat bite which resulted in loss of mobility in Ms.T’s fingers – negligence had left her with lifelong disabilities.
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We are supporting Meningitis Research Foundation in raising awareness on prevention and cures for the disease – A world free of meningitis and septicaemia.
Compensation obtained for knee replacement surgery which resulted in cardiac arrest
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A medical negligence case report on a knee replacement / operation go wrong. An incident of a client who experienced significant bleeding and cardiac arrest.
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In Halsey v Milton Keynes General, it was held that a successful party can be deprived of all or part of its costs if it unreasonably refused to agree to alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
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Clarke Willmott’s guide to buying and selling homes during COVID-19
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Buyers and renters should delay moving to a new house. If you have already exchanged contracts and the property is currently occupied then all parties should agree a delay.
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