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Before this week, few of us would ever have heard of the Ever Given. My grandfather, who was born in 1890, left home for the life of a merchant seaman when he was 14 and sailed around Cape Horn on a commercial sailing ship. He would barely recognize…

Next Tuesday, 23rd March 2021, is the first anniversary of the day on which Covid restrictions first came into force in the United Kingdom. It has been designated as a day of reflection, primarily to commemorate the loss of lives and to stand…

The recent Supreme Court decision in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2021] UKSC3, completed a triumvirate of cases in which the Court has been asked to rule on whether a parent company can be liable for a subsidiary’s operations.  

Section 106 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (as amended) (“HGCRA”) states that the HGCRA does not apply to contracts where one party is a “residential occupier”, that is a person who lives in or intends to live in the…