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Corporate weekly highlights—9 July 2020

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Published on: 09 July 2020

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This week’s edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes analysis on the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the concept of a duty of good faith in contract law, an FRC review of the going concern policies and procedures of the seven largest UK audit firms amid coronavirus, the Ministry of Justice consultation on rules governing the departure from retained EU case law by UK courts and tribunals after IP completion day, an FCA Decision Notice published against the former CEO of Worldspreads for market abuse in relation to alleged misleading information in the company’s AIM admission document and analysis on who is an interested person for the purpose of applying to restore a dissolved company to the register.

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