In many day to day transactions, you may hear the term “agency” or that one person is acting as the “agent” of a company or another person or other entity, known as a “principal”. What does this really...
Some 11 billion tons of goods are estimated to be transported by ship each year around the world. Trinidad and Tobago, located at the southern base of the Caribbean, is well positioned in relation to shipping lanes in...
The vagaries of these pandemic times have caused commercial tenants and landlords to renegotiate the terms of their leases. Landlords have been forced to weigh the loss of income and terminating the leases of tenants in arrears, against...
As a country, we are starting to acclimatise to the ‘new normal’. Unfortunately, for many businesses this means grappling with how to keep their doors open, manage cash flows and keep staff employed. In this time of financial...
2020 has had no shortage of catastrophic and shocking news. For football fanatics, one of the biggest stories of the year has been Lionel Messi’s announcement that he was no longer happy with the direction of his club,...
A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person (the maker) to pay another person (the bearer) on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a specified or certain sum of money...
An NDA (also known as a confidentiality agreement) is a contract whereby a party gaining access to sensitive information agrees not to share it with others.NDAs have received negative coverage in the news lately as a result of...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought us new words such as ‘covidiot’ and ‘maskne’, and popularised terms like ‘social distancing’ and ‘flatten the curve’. For many business and legal professionals, the term ‘force majeure’ has also become very popular....
As the impact of the Novel Corona Virus (Covid-19) continues to rare its head in T&T, the Government has implemented ‘Shelter in Place’ or ‘Stay at Home’ restrictions. By the Public Health [2019 Novel Corona Virus] Regulations 2020,...
