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Can a party to a commercial contract escape its obligations because of the economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic?
The answer to this question, which is of the utmost interest to companies of all sizes, is to be found in the new French contract law introduced by Ordinance of February 10, 2016.
The in-depth reform of the French civil procedure that will enter into force on January 1, 2020 brings about significant amendments to the procedural rules applicable before the various courts and will keep us lawyers very busy for a while! And this is all the more true as we will have to acclimatize in a few days to a completely new environment!
In a previous article entitled “Brexit: Troubled negotiations failed. What next?”, I mentioned the forthcoming adoption of several Ordinances in furtherance of the so-called Enabling Law of January 19, 2019 that authorized the French Government “to take measures by way of Ordinances to prepare for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union”. Since then, […]
We are only two months ahead of the expiry of the two-year timeframe provided for by Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union that will entail the automatic exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, unless if this timeframe is extended or if an agreement on a transition period is reached. […]
The United Kingdom is the first Member of the European Union that used the withdrawal option provided for under Article 50 that was introduced in the Treaty on European Union by the Lisbon Treaty. This unexpected withdrawal raises major challenges that no one seems to have actually anticipated. It seems that no one was prepared […]
Much has already been written about the reform of French contract law that became effective on October 1, 2016. Some legal writers complained that concepts that were specific and clearly defined by case-law have been replaced by vague and uncertain notions. To characterize the inspiration of these new provisions, a legal writer has used the […]
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