The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is being felt across the globe and has been recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a global pandemic. Like many other governments worldwide, on Monday ...

As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt across all jurisdictions and sectors, companies are considering their options should they find themselves unable to perform their contracts.

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In his Commercial Division Update, Thomas J. Hall writes: The narrowness of the doctrines of impossibility and frustration of purpose—and their questionable utility for litigators—underscores the ...

In their Commercial Division Update, Chadbourne & Parke partners George Bundy Smith and Thomas J. Hall examine the history of the frustration of purpose doctrine, which can be an incredibly powerful ...

The “doctrine of frustration” and “force majeure” have become crucial facets of law in the time of the global pandemic, COVID-19, and have become crucial facets of contracts and accountability.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Larry Hogan signed a statewide order shutting down all “nonessential businesses” on March 23, 2020. If not designated an essential business by the order, a ...

Under Minnesota law, litigants can now officially claim temporary frustration of purpose as an affirmative defense for nonperformance of a contract—and potentially claim the doctrine as a basis for a ...

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