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COVID-19: Key Issues for Employers

The BCR Law employment team have considered the key matters that employers in Jersey should be considering in response to global COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19, was first positively tested in Jersey...

April 28, 2020 Read more

In the matter of the missing briefcase

The risks attendant on home working were brought into sharp focus recently in a decision of The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (the “SDT”).  A junior lawyer in a UK firm (“X”)...

April 27, 2020 Read more

“Smacking Ban” now in force in Jersey

On 24 April 2020 Jersey became the first place in the British Isles to introduce a new law that prohibits corporal punishment of children.  Known as the “smacking ban”, the...

April 27, 2020 Read more

Covid-19 – Inquests and changes to reporting and recording deaths

At the time of writing there have sadly been 14 deaths in Jersey associated with Covid-19.  The Covid-19 pandemic presents a number of challenges for Courts including the Deputy Viscount...

April 22, 2020 Read more

Courts Emergency Provisions

The States Chamber are today debating the implementation of the Draft Covid-19 (Emergency Provisions – Courts) (Jersey) Regulations 202- (the “Regulations”) with a view to ensuring continuity in the operation...

April 21, 2020 Read more

Swearing Affidavits – Keeping the Wheels of Justice Turning

It is said that justice delayed is justice denied. To avoid those delays during the current pandemic the Courts, lawyers and the parties to litigation require to find alternative ways...

April 17, 2020 Read more

Coronavirus and the Acceleration of Remote Courts

We are all finding different ways to do things in this new world of lock-down. For some working from home is an easy enough transition, swapping the desk for the...

April 16, 2020 Read more

COVID – 19: To What Extent Does the Pandemic Undermine Maintenance Orders?

This note expands further on that by Tara Lee which primarily addressed court orders providing for capital redistribution on divorce. In family law there are two general types of maintenance...

April 16, 2020 Read more

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