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In brief

A selection of newly announced legislation and court decisions reinterpreting private law.

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In brief

A selection of newly announced legislation and court decisions reinterpreting private law.

Click here to read in Czech

In brief

A selection of newly announced legislation and court decisions reinterpreting private law.

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In brief

A selection of newly announced legislation and court decisions reinterpreting private law.

Draft law on preventive restructuring

Not for the first time in the current pandemic crisis, the UK government has found itself playing catch up with other countries. Over the weekend the UK followed the lead of governments in Germany and Australia by announcing plans to introduce a temporary relaxation of the existing wrongful trading regime for company directors. It has also taken the opportunity to revive the previous government's plans to add to the existing UK insolvency law "toolkit" by introducing a new debtor-friendly restructuring law.

Wrongful trading