The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, has announced that the government will be introducing a number of changes to the insolvency regime in England & Wales as part of its response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In Tiuta International Limited (in liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Limited [2017] UKSC 77 the Supreme Court reminded us that the measure of damages is that which is required to restore the claimant as nearly as possible to the position that he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong.