Two years on from the UK’s first lockdown and the buzz has returned. Litigators might now work part-time from their homes and courts persist with virtual hearings for simple procedural hearings and the like, but a level of pre-2020 familiarity has been restored.
While 2021 saw a handful of cases arising from Covid-19, the City is yet to be flooded with the wave of countercyclical issues predicted back in March 2020. Instead, cases have been driven by trends that have been brewing for years. Top of that list: class actions.
