Landlords of New Look stores have failed in their challenge to a CVA which wrote off rent arrears and imposed turnover rents on hundreds of stores.

Like so many high street fashion retailers New Look was already in a precarious position before the pandemic hit. When its turnover was reduced to nil overnight it projected it would run out of cash without help.

Have the tough times in the construction industry changed? It would appear not despite an uptick in the New South Wales economy. “I just want to be paid” is the title of the report just released by the Senate Economics References Committee.[1]