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10 Apr 2019 09:22
Have golden visas lost their sheen?There are growing concerns about the practice of handing out passports and visas to wealthy foreigners in return for investment. Yet some claim the risks have been exaggerated. In January, the European Commission (EC) called for EU Member States to curb the practice of giving foreigners residency or more...
10 Apr 2019 08:52
Cyber espionage: China intensifies tech cold warChina’s telecom giant Huawei is facing mounting scrutiny, with the US and other governments concerned that its market dominance poses a national security threat. Global Insight examines what’s at stake as the two superpowers compete for who controls global technology this century. Long-standing more...
8 Apr 2019 11:13
Revisiting Goldman Sachs v Banco Novo [2018] UKSC 34Winterbrook Global Opportunities Fund v NB Finance Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 737 (Ch) 01 April 2019 The High Court revisits the 2018 Supreme Court decision to determine to whom a default on a loan should be attributed: the original but now-failing debtor bank, or the institution to whom the more...
8 Apr 2019 09:49
IBAHRI statement on the situation of lawyers in TurkeyToday, 5 April 2019, on the occasion of the Lawyers’ Day in Turkey, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) joined with over 30 other associations and organisations concerned with the rule of law and protection of the rights of lawyers to strongly condemn the ongoing more...
8 Apr 2019 09:47
Letter to President Maduro on ‘dismantling of democracy and the rule of law’ in Venezuela sent by IBAHRI and IBA-IAJThe leadership of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and the Ibero-American Group of the International Association of Judges (IBA-IAJ) have sent an open letter to Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro expressing ‘our concern over the progressive dismantling of more...
4 Apr 2019 13:15
The effects of EU Withdrawal for Commercial LawyersThe United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is brought into effect at a domestic level by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“the Act”). As has been extensively reported, the Act and the subordinate legislation that it will give rise to, constitute the single largest legislative more...
3 Apr 2019 09:55
Peter Laverack in landmark ruling that legally recognises same-sex marriage in a British Overseas TerritoryEdward Fitzgerald QC of Doughty Chambers and Peter Laverack of 5 Essex Court, with local silk Ben Tonner QC of McGrath Tonner, successfully represented the petitioners (Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodden Bush) in the first case of its kind in the Caribbean. The Chief Justice modified the Marriage Law more...
3 Apr 2019 09:52
Aaron Moss obtains high-profile Terrorist Account Freezing OrderOfficers of the Metropolitan Police Service’s National Terrorist Financial Investigations Unit - the NTFIU - have obtained an Account Freezing Order in relation to Rizlaine Boular’s bank account. Rizlaine Boular was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, alongside her sister and mother, in 2018 more...
3 Apr 2019 09:10
IBAHRI condemns sentence against Venezuela’s Judge María Lourdes AfiuniThe International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) strongly condemns the five-year prison sentence handed down against Judge María Lourdes Afiuni on 21 March 2019 in the absence of evidence of corruption. Judge Afiuni has faced numerous human rights violations after being more...
3 Apr 2019 09:03
New Brunei penal code permitting stoning to death for gay sex and adultery condemned by IBAHRIThe International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemns the implementation of the Syariah Penal Code in Brunei – due to come into effect on 3 April 2019 – which permits stoning and whipping to death of anyone convicted of engaging in consensual same-sex sexual activity. Further, more...
1 Apr 2019 11:43
Philip Dayle wins in Privy Council appealThe Judicial Committee of Privy Council today allowed an appeal of a decision by the Court of Appeal of Jamaica. View summary here The successful appellant is a human rights organisation based in Jamaica, called Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ). They argued that the Police Service Commission (PSC) in more...
1 Apr 2019 10:34
Spain: Former Catalan leaders on trial for ‘draconian’ charges of rebellion and seditionSpain’s Supreme Court is currently hearing the trial of twelve former leaders of the Catalan government and parliament. The defendants in the trial, which began on 12 February 2019, face charges of rebellion, sedition, civil disobedience and the misappropriation of public funds for attempting to more...
28 Mar 2019 09:55
IBAHRI supports ‘executive moratorium’ on the death penalty in CaliforniaThe International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) welcomes the recent executive order by the Honorable Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, effectively imposing a moratorium on the death penalty in the North American state through the command of ‘reprieve for all people sentenced more...
27 Mar 2019 09:54
Employment Appeal Tribunal gives first judgment on European Works CouncilsIn what could potentially be the last days of the UK as a member of the EU, the EAT has recently published its first judgment on the workings of European Works Councils (EWCs) – Lean v ManpowerGroup UKEAT/0096/18/DA. EWCs are information and consultation bodies representing employees in European more...
25 Mar 2019 16:18
Reflections of an intern: Awaiting landmark decision in UK Supreme Court case on parent company liabilityBackground On 15–16 of January 2019, the UK Supreme Court heard an appeal in the case of Vedanta Resources PLC and another v Lungowe and others. The case dates back to September 2015, when approximately 2,000 Zambian villagers brought a negligence claim against Vedanta Resources Plc (Vedanta) and more...
25 Mar 2019 16:15
Business and human rights: African mining pollution case could tighten law on parent company liabilityAn international mining company has appealed to the UK Supreme Court in a pollution case brought by over 1,800 Zambian villagers. The Court’s upcoming decision on whether the case against Vedanta Resources and its subsidiary, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), can proceed to trial in the UK could help more...
20 Mar 2019 11:20
Notes from a very small islandFollowing his appointment as the Public Solicitor for the island of St Helena last year, read the first of Duncan Cooke’s mid-Atlantic despatches. As the intense summer heat starts to break down with the first of the rain I ponder on my first six months on the small rocky outcrop of Saint Helena in more...
20 Mar 2019 09:43
UK Human Rights Blog: No Deal Brexit may be unlawfulLeaving the EU without a deal on 29 March 2019 is not the “legal default”, as has been repeatedly, but wrongly, asserted. It would, in fact, be in violation of the supreme law at both the domestic and supranational level, namely the UK constitution and EU Treaties (or more broadly, the General more...
13 Mar 2019 10:06
And now for something completely different: Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Ltd and others v European Medicines Agency [2019] EWHC 335 (Ch)A property blog should provide comforting reading material to which the keen property lawyer may resort by way of distraction from what is going on in the outside world: a refuge from the overload of information which in these days of rolling 24-hour news and screen-addiction would otherwise prove more...
13 Mar 2019 09:23
What is retained EU law?This Q&A, produced by Mathias Cheung in partnership with LexisNexis, outlines the scope and meaning of retained EU law (including retained legislation, principles and case law) under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. It also considers the key exclusions and relevant transitional provisions. more...
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