Debenhams Retail Ltd, Re [2020] EWHC 921

Coronvirus Job Retention Scheme and Administration: are contracts adopted after employees placed on furlough by company?

This case was heard shortly after the Carluccio’s case (above). It concerns an application by the joint administrators (the ‘Administrators’) of Debenhams Retail Limited (‘the Company’) for directions pursuant to paragraph 63 of Schedule B1 (Schedule B1) to the Insolvency Act 1986 (‘IA 1986’).