Read more at: Joint 3CL/CPLC Webinar: 'Commercial Contracts and the Pandemic – Conciliate or Litigate?'
Joint 3CL/CPLC Webinar: 'Commercial Contracts and the Pandemic – Conciliate or Litigate?'
Speaker: Professor Sir William Blair (Queen Mary, University of London) Chair: Louise Gullifer (University of Cambridge) Download: "Breathing space" - Concept Note 2 on the effect of the 2020 pandemic on commercial contracts, September 2020 Update Abstract: Force majeure and other issues are increasingly being seen in commercial contracts where the deepening economic effects of the pandemic are impeding performance. To avoid a “plethora of defaults” (Mario Draghi’s phrase) should we be looking at new ways of resolving disputes, or should be focus on how technology can accommodate legal proceedings even during lockdowns? Sir William Blair draws on the work of the “breathing space” project of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in discussing these issues. Enquiries to: 3cl@law.cam.ac.uk
