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Court concludes contract of insurance can come into effect based on an email exchange, provided the terms can be clearly identified. The issue of when a contract of insurance comes into effect was brought into focus recently with an English High Court judgment handed down last month. In Markel Bermuda v Caesars Entertainment (2021), the

Landlords will be pleased to note that, with effect from 1 October 2021, the period of notice that a landlord must give to the tenant before commencing a claim for possession will revert back to the pre-pandemic notice periods. Please note that the government has retained its emergency powers to impose longer notice periods until 25 March 2022.

Devonshires were instructed by a small UK based consultancy company in respect of a debt that had been owed for two years.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to more reinsurance disputes needing resolution. With no readily available playbook to direct how such disputes are to be answered, the market is gravitating towards lawyers again.

The Court of Appeal last week dismissed an appeal against a suspended custodial sentence made by a resident who had been found to have breached an Injunction which prohibited him using racist, offensive or abusive language or gestures against his neighbour or any member of her family and from intimidating or attempting to intimate the neighbour or member of her family.  The breach was proven via CCTV.

The Government announced on 16 June 2021 that the existing moratorium on forfeiture of leases which was due to expire on 30 June 2021 will be extended until 25 March 2022.