Will Covid-19 exempt your responsibility from failure to perform your obligation under French civil law?

Will Covid-19 exempt your responsibility from failure to perform your obligation under French civil law?

In this article, we consider if failure to perform your obligation in relation to Covid-19 will exempt your responsibility for “force majeure” or “unpredictability” under the French civil law. We also look into whether a tenant, prohibited to do business by the French government due to Covid-19, will be exempt from paying the rent or entitled to reduce it.

Click here to read the article [in Japanese].