An admirable judgment from the Madras High Court relieved a trader from paying license fee during the lockdown and focuses on the “impossibility” of performance of the contract and sees it under the scanner of Article 14.
The lockdown has left many junior lawyers in the lurch and they’re unable to fend for their families. It is time bar associations and senior lawyers helped them tide over this crisis
A single-judge bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh of Delhi High Court held that the Force Majeure clause does not afford any succour or shelter to the Contractor, at this stage, to seek restraint against the encashment of the Bank Guarantees.