Vol. 9, No. 34, Winter 2016

This article observes the recent operation of Alternative Dispute Resolution, in the form of Adjudication, and Litigation in the civil courts in deciding construction disputes in the UK, including: (i) recent cases...Read more

India very recently moved up 12 positions to 130th among 189 nations on the ‘ease of doing business’ matrix announced by World Bank recently giving a thrust to India’s attempt...Read more

eDiscovery is on the rise. In 2015, we’ve seen an uptick in data breaches and cybersecurity threats. With the Internet of Things and the information flooding in the cloud and...Read more

The Malaysian government has recently introduced major changes to the Housing Development Act 1966 (“HDA”) which is the mother of all housing development regulations in Malaysia. The HDA essentially governs...Read more

The need to undertake mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) has prompted groans across the profession for over a quarter of a century, with solicitors scrabbling at the last minute to...Read more

Every month the author of this article gives the new souls who have joined his company an induction presentation on the in-house legal and regulatory affairs teams – the presentation...Read more

The Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, has announced that the tax system is one of the key levers the government has to promote economic activity and...Read more

During the 2002 season of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees both won an astounding 103 games, a feat only topped three times by any...Read more

I am an English Qualified Solicitor who is currently working as Senior In-House Counsel for Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (“SECL”) based in Seoul, South Korea; SECL is one of the...Read more

Your CEO comes to you and says the company is considering acquiring a company in Europe. What do you do? First of all, you need to determine why your...Read more

European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) adopted on 24 June 2013, the EFPIA Disclosure Code, that is a code of conduct which obliges its member companies, from 2016,...Read more

The arrival of the 10th Data Privacy Day on 28 January may have been a timely reminder for in-house counsel to review their businesses’ compliance with ever-changing European data...Read more

Public procurement tenders represent for many companies an important source of business opportunities and their results represent significant portion on their revenues. Sectors like energy, healthcare, infrastructure construction are in...Read more

Many law firm lawyers hope, at some point in their legal careers, to move in-house with a corporate law department. Often they seek to eliminate the pressure to develop business,...Read more

The value of business and human information has increased exponentially, and those who steal and defraud have become more creative and savvy. In our electronic world, machines conduct transactions without...Read more

The issues of regulation of banking supervision are usually the same in many financial systems. In most cases we have similar authorities and matching regulations to ensure that financial institutions...Read more

This paper surveys the existing laws in Australia which impact on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly called UAVs or ‘drones’). It considers the regulatory controls on the users...Read more

Many developing countries have “aspirational” laws, either carry-overs from years of European colonial rule or modeled after European laws (for example, British common law in Anglophone Africa). Rather than having...Read more