Posts tagged #pandemic
All PostsOGH: COVID-19 Rent Reduction for Swingers Clubs
Civil LawThe Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) has clarified that, due to the obligation to wear FFP-2 masks, it was not possible to use a property in accordance with its agreed contractual purpose of operating a swingers club and...
OGH on Rent Cuts during Pandemics
Civil LawThe Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) has clarified that government interventions affecting the general public do not justify rent reductions. The burden of proof for the lack of usability of the property, which would jus...
GER: Triage Regulation Set to Come
Public LawShould ICU beds once again become scarce, sometimes difficult decisions will have to be made as to which patients are entitled to survival-critical intensive care treatment and which are not. Until now, this decision has been made exclusively by doct...
Germany: Virtual General Meetings Are Here to Stay
Corporate LawAt the beginning of July this year, the German Bundestag adopted a bill on virtual general meetings of public limited companies. Online general meetings were initially introduced for a limited term due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but are now to become ...
DE: Reduction of commercial lease payments in the lockdown
Civil LawThe German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) granted tenants of commercially used premises a right for lease adjustment as a result of a lockdown. However, all individual circumstances, such as state aid as well as loss of turnover or in...
DE: Legislator must regulate triage for people with disabilities
Public LawThe German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) sees an urgent need for action to protect persons with disabilities from disadvantages in a (pandemic-related) triage situation. It orders the legislature to take appropriate ...
COVID-19: The current home office regulations
Arbeitsrecht ZivilrechtAs the pandemic continues to dominate our everyday (work) life, home office is an important part of many employees' and employers' lives. Therefore, it is important to get an overview of the labour law provisions of the current home office framework....
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