General contract developments: A webinar for lawyers and contract negotiators in aviation and defence

COVID-19 and contracts: lessons from some leading decisions, including Q&A

There have been a flurry of court decisions, and we look at three:

• WEX v Travelport on COVID-19 and ‘material adverse change’;
• BNY Mellon v Cine-UK on the impact of lockdown regulations on a property lease; and
• EPCR v RDA on COVID-19 and force majeure, highlighting lessons from each decision

Back to essentials on an NDA

NDAs are often treated as ‘standard’ during business negotiations, but clauses can take parties by real surprise. We’ll look at the UK Supreme Court decision in Your Lawyers v Harcus Sinclair on the enforcement of a far-reaching non-compete clause in an NDA, and we’ll also highlight some common ‘surprises’ in NDA drafting.