The UK government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak has included various steps intended to relieve pressure on residential property tenants, whose livelihoods and income might have been seriously impacted by the current lockdown. Those steps have included the extension of statutory notice periods for landlords who want to terminate residential tenancies, and extra time being
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UK COVID-19: Update on protection from forfeiture for commercial tenants
Avid readers will have seen our previous blog on the government’s proposals to protect commercial tenants from the risk of forfeiture for non-payment of rent, as a result of COVID-19. The proposals were incorporated into section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 (the Act), which came into force on 25 March 2020. In particular, section