The disruption and financial pressures caused by the pandemic are likely to give rise to some common challenges for businesses across sectors, whether the problem concerns a supplier or a customer. While each case will require specific advice, parties should be generally aware of some recent changes to legal remedies available when approaching a dispute.
My supplier is telling me that it can’t perform its obligations because of the pandemic. What rights do I have?
The first step here is to check your contract for a force majeure clause. It may be headed force majeure, but if not, you are looking for a clause that describes what will happen if the contract cannot be performed because of an event that neither party anticipated. The pandemic…
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