With all the chaos of remote working, home schooling and other disruptions during the pandemic, it is not surprising that lawyers and litigants struggling with deadlines have cited COVID-19 as an excuse, Sarah Murray, head of dispute resolution at Stevens & Bolton, writes in this week’s NLJ.
The courts, however, have been reluctant to accept this excuse. Murray looks at the way the courts have reacted, how their attitudes have hardened during the pandemic and, consequently, the best way to frame the excuse if you genuinely need to use it.
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