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COVID-19: Summary of Key Issues.................................................................................... 1
This is the twenty-ninth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas.
The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find interesting or relevant – or both.
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Following are our summaries of last week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Not surprisingly, it was a light week.
1. Which financial (not tax or labour) short-term compensation schemes for immediate losses due to social distancing measures have been implemented? For which industries/sizes of business?
Deferred Loan Repayment
In addition to new legislation mentioned elsewhere in this round-up (see links to other sections), commercial and tech businesses and in-house counsel should note:
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act
With two of the UK's biggest cinema chains announcing, within days of each other, significant curbs to their operations due to COVID-19's continued impact on the entertainment sector, our restructuring and insolvency team have looked at the particular challenges faced by these venues and some of the steps their operators and funders should consider to help keep the curtains open.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UK'S ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
An interesting story has come out of the Olympic showjumping, with the dual silver medal winning 10 year old Belgian stallion named London, being seized as part of ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, leaving his German rider Gerco Schroeder horseless.
Mr Schroeder is now faced with the uncertainty of whether he will be able to continue to ride the talented stallion or if he will have to find himself a new backer and a new mount.
On 21 December 2011, the New South Wales Court of Appeal (Court) delivered its decision in Moss v Eaglestone (2011) 257 FLR 96. This decision clarifies the circumstances in which legal causes of action will be considered property divisible amongst a bankrupt’s creditors.
Background
In 2007, Moss supplied information regarding Schapelle Corby to Nationwide News Pty Ltd (News). News published this information in a newspaper article, which also referred to Moss’s criminal background.
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Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
In Thistle v Schumilias, an insurer refused to pay out on a life insurance policy on the basis that the insured had failed to disclose a pre-existing medical condition. The respondent commenced an action against the insurance company and during that litigation became aware of the potential professional negligence of the insurance agent who sold the policy.