Professor Alex Mills co-authors article on Covid-19 and Limitation Periods in Cross-Border Disputes

This article, co-authored with Tom Weisselberg QC (Blackstone Chambers), examines the potential impact of the coronavirus pandemic on limitation periods affecting international civil litigation in the courts of England and Wales.

29 May 2020

Professor Alex Mills (Professor of Public and Private International Law at UCL Laws and member of Blackstone Chambers’ Academi c Research Panel), has co-authored an article with Tom Weisselberg QC entitled ‘Covid-19 and Limitation Periods in Cross-Border Disputes’.

The law governing limitation periods is critical in managing a dispute; a failure to bring proceedings within the required limitation period is usually nothing less than fatal to a claim. The article focuses on how changes to limitation periods adopted in some foreign legal systems as a part of their response to the Covid-19 pandemic may potentially impact international civil litigation in the English courts.

Read ‘Covid-19 and Limitation Periods in Cross-Border Disputes’ on the Blackstone Chambers website now.