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An overview of how to deal with furlough and redundancy

Posted: May 26, 2020
By: Helix Law
Category: employment-law

EMPLOYMENT ISSUES AND COVID-19 1. FURLOUGH As a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government introduced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) on 20 March 2020. The purpose of the scheme is to avoid redundancies by alleviating the pressure on employers to continue paying wages in full during the crisis period. [...]

New Rules – MEES Regulations

Posted: April 2, 2020
By: Helix Law
Category: property disputes

THE NEW RULES FOR THE ‘MINIMUM LEVEL OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY’ STANDARD (MEES) – ENGLAND AND WALES As from April 2018, new tenancies in England and Wales have had to meet the Government’s minimum energy efficiency standard (MEES). Properties required to have an energy performance certificate (EPC) must reach a minimum ‘E’ rating on their EPC [...]

COVID-19: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Furlough Leave

Posted: March 27, 2020
By: Helix Law
Category: employment-law

The Government announced a new Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on 20 March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the scheme, all UK employers, regardless of size or sector, can claim a grant from HMRC to cover 80% of the wages costs of employees who are not working but kept on the payroll ("furloughed"), [...]

New Form 6A

A new Form 6A (s21 notice) has been released today for immediate use in England to comply with the Coronavirus Act 2020. Landlords, agents and property investors must ensure they use the new notice. Other/older forms will not be valid. The most significant and substantive change is that the notice period is now 3 months [...]

Corona Virus – changes to possession

The Government has announced a series of changes and restrictions on landlords regaining possession of their property during the coronavirus pandemic. Legislation is in draft form at the moment and is expected to pass into law on Friday 27 March 2020. The main change to possession are: Notice periods for all notices, including Section 8 [...]

Corona Virus – service charges

The existing government guidance on COVID-19 does not cover service charge or ground rent arrears that arise during the Corona Virus crisis. Broadly speaking, the courts remain open and any actions to recover ground rent or service charge arrears can continue as normal. Where there are ground rent and/or service charge arrears the process would [...]

Repudiatory Breach of Contract

Posted: September 17, 2019
By: Helix Law
Category: business-law

Contract law is complex and can lead to messy situations, especially when the circumstances involve more than two parties, as shown by the following case study. This case has brought to light how a contract can be deemed to have ended automatically following certain instances of a repudiatory breach of contract. What Is a Repudiatory [...]

Tenant Fee Ban Wales – What fees can Landlords and Letting Agents charge and what is prohibited?

DOWNLOAD YOUR GUIDE TO THE BAN HERE The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 comes into force on 1 September 2019 and limits the fees landlords and letting agents can charge to tenants. This will make it an offence to charge a tenant any payment that is not specified as a ‘permitted payment’ under [...]

Tenant Fee Ban – What fees can Landlord and Lettings Agents charge and what is prohibited?

DOWNLOAD YOUR GUIDE TO THE BAN HERE The Tenant Fees Act 2019 comes into force on 1 June 2019 and limits the fees landlord and letting agents can charge to tenants. What fees can you ask a tenant to pay? From 1 June 2019, the only fees you can charge in connection with a tenancy [...]

Scope and Form of Disclosure

Updated: December 21, 2018 What is disclosure? Disclosure is the process in litigation where each party is required to disclose to the other party 'documents' in their control which are material to the issues in dispute. Disclosure is an important part of any civil litigation and it is important to understand what is required. Failing [...]

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