Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others.

Head of Litigation at Ramsdens, Nick Armitage explains the current position on the recovery of commercial property due to rent arrears and also on the recovery of those rent arrears.

The High Court has handed down its judgement in a test case brought by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on whether a sample of business interruption (BI) policies provide cover in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are delighted to have achieved another year of great rankings in the Legal 500. This year we’ve ranked in eight practice areas across our Business and Personal services (including Corporate and Commercial, Commercial Litigation, Employment, Commercial Property, Family, Contentious Probate, Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate and Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury: Claimant) and 20 solicitors have been recommended for their work.

On 21 May 2020 we reported on the provisions of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 that were aimed at assisting struggling businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.

​The Court of Appeal has recently given a judgement on the contentious issue of the failure of a landlord to provide the tenant of an assured shorthold tenancy with a gas safety certificate before the tenant entered into the tenancy or indeed during the term where required.

In our blog of 24 April we reported on the Government’s press release announcing measures to protect companies and commercial tenants from aggressive rent collection by their landlords during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Landlords, tenants and property professionals will welcome a new version of the Code for leasing business premises in England & Wales, published by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).