Covid-19

The current COVID-19 pandemic presents a range of social, health and economic challenges worldwide and these challenges are impacting our clients both on a personal level and commercially to their businesses.

39 Essex Chambers has created a COVID-19 response team which includes members from Chambers’ wide ranging practice areas. Our members continue to monitor current developments in these unprecedented times and apply our expertise to support clients however and wherever that may be needed.

Our team in chambers have experience in the following areas in which the COVID-19 pandemic may have implications for our clients:

• Commercial contracts
• Construction
• Energy
• Health & Safety
• Insurance, including coverage, business interruption, D&O, Employers Liability
• Local and Central Government
• Planning, Environment and Property
• Public Law including Human Rights, Adult Social Care and Healthcare
• Professional indemnity, particularly in relation to insurance brokers

We will continue to produce COVID-19 specific content on our website to keep our clients informed in this fast changing and uncertain market.

If you have any COVID-19 related enquiries that you would like to discuss please contact the following clerks whose details can be found below.

Ben Sundborg & Tom Gibbons – Insurance-related queries

Niki Merison & Mark Winrow – Commercial & Construction

Sheraton Doyle & Peter Campbell – Public Law including Human Rights, Adult Social Care, Healthcare, Central Government and Local Government

Andrew Poyser & Elliott Hurrell – Energy, Planning & Environment