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Vol.12, No. 46, Winter 2019

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Vol.12, No. 46, Winter 2019

£125.00

Contents

Page 5685
Cutting the Gordian Knot - Restrictive Covenants in Employment Contracts
In India, in order to protect trade secrets, confidential information and human resources, it is common for companies and organizations to include ‘restrictive covenants’ in employment contracts. As a general...Read more
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Divya Kumat
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Company Secretary, Datamatics Global Services Limited, India
Page 5691
Brexit: The In-House Counsel as Change Catalyst
As 2019 begins we are no clearer to knowing what Brexit will look like on 29 March 2019. With less than three months until the anticipated Brexit date, organizations of...Read more
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Clare O’Hare
PhD student, University of Notre Dame, Ireland
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Miriam Caley
Head of Legal - Ireland, Optum, Ireland
Page 5701
Non-Price Discrimination in the Greek Wholesale Electronic Communications Market – The Decision of the Greek NRA and Competition Authority (EETT)
The Greek case of ‘Non-discrimination’ in the Electronic Communications market - (EETT Decision N. 826/04/2017 ) During 2017, the Greek NRA EETT , which represents both the NRA and the Competition...Read more
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Xanthi Bitzidou
Senior Lawyer, E.E.T.T, Greece
Page 5711
Information Governance – A Primer
Information is a key corporate asset. “Data is growing faster than ever before and by the year 2020, our [data universe] will grow tenfold to around 44 zettabytes or 44...Read more
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Taa Grays
VP & Associate General Counsel - IG, MetLife, Inc., USA
Page 5721
Interim measures in the UK: Lessons From the Online Auction Platform Case
Interim measures have the potential to be an effective and cost-efficient way for businesses with limited budgets to change the behaviour of companies that raise competition concerns. The threshold for...Read more
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Helen Parker
Chief Executive, UKAuctioneers Group, UK
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Simon Chisholm
Vice President, Charles River Associates, UK
Page 5721
Interim measures in the UK: Lessons From the Online Auction Platform Case
Interim measures have the potential to be an effective and cost-efficient way for businesses with limited budgets to change the behaviour of companies that raise competition concerns. The threshold for...Read more
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Sarah Long
Partner, Euclid Law, UK
Page 5735
A Unified Regulatory Approach for the Orderly Development of the Indian Infrastructure Sector: A case for Reforms.
Between fiscals 2008 and 2017, private investment in infrastructure was estimated to be ~Rs 20 lakh crore, or nearly a third of all infrastructure spending during the period. The share,...Read more
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Nupur Nadir
Head - Legal, GEPL, GMR Group, India
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Chrys Gonsalves
Lead Counsel, Gmr, India
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Ruchika Nayyar
Vice President and Head - Legal, GMR Group, India
Page 5745
Legal Aspects of Immersive Technologies
Immersive technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality are increasingly deployed within industrial applications. Despite the added value they offer, there are still numerous legal and practical considerations...Read more
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Jana Pattynova
Partner, Pierstone, Czech Republic
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Jirí Cerný
Legal Director, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Microsoft, Czech Republic
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Olga Slipetska
IT Lawyer, Pierstone, Czech Republic
Page 5753
Going Dutch
In an era where the location of the commercial centre of Europe remains to be determined, we look at the position of the English Commercial Court (ECC) and that of...Read more
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Ingeborg Kuyvenhoven
General Counsel, Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V., Netherlands
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Tim Reid
Partner, Ashurst, UK
Page 5759
European Union and Maritime Law
China as a catch up country has managed to master a breath taking development form its opening to the outside world in late 1970 ties until present times, in which...Read more
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Petar Kragic
Legal counsel, Tankerska Plovidba dd, Croatia
Page 5769
‘Right of Access to the Site Under FIDIC – How To Properly Cooperate in the Investment Process’
Contemporary infrastructural investment projects are characterized by the increasing complexity of innovative technological and architectural solutions of the objects being the main subject of implemented undertakings. The high level...Read more
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Grzegorz Pawlowski
Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, DCT Gdansk SA, Poland
Page 5777
The Life of a Sole In-House Counsel
As I come up to my sixth anniversary in the role of Head of Legal Affairs with Nonwovenn, a specialist textiles manufacturing company in Somerset, UK, I have found myself...Read more
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Italo Cerullo
Head of Legal Affairs, Nonwovenn, UK
Page 5785
The Notion of Res Judicata in Investor-State Arbitration
The notion of res judicata is a general principle of both national and international law. The general ideas of the principle are that, in the public interest, there should be...Read more
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Michael Lanser
Senior Legal Counsel, Skandia Mutual Life Insurance Company, Sweden
Page 5803
The Compulsory Licensing in Russia: The First Precedent Lessons Learned
The compulsory license mechanism in Russia had been described in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation for a long time. However, there had been no real cases of granting...Read more
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Elvira Dubovskaya
Fulbright Scholar, N/A, Russia
Page 5809
Lawyers and Technology – Use ‘IT’ or Lose It
Lawyers face many different challenges and a recent addition to this growing list is how best to respond to technology /digital changes, innovation and disruption. Given that the practice of...Read more
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Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer, Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Page 5815
The Changing Role of Legal Department – Can Artificial Intelligence Influence it?
Inhouse legal has undergone substantive changes in the last few decades. Gone are the days when it acted in an advisory capacity providing legal advices at a very high level....Read more
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Abhijit Mukhopadhyay
President (Legal) & General Counsel, Hinduja Group, London, UK
Page 5821
To Shoot or not to Shoot: How to Navigate Buy-Sell Deadlock Resolution Mechanisms for Joint-Ventures
Joint Venture (JV) governance can sometimes become a “sea of troubles” and raise the question for the partners whether or not to “take arms against” it. When the JV agreement...Read more
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Camélia Gardot
Senior Director of Compliance, Hertz, France
Page 5831
Tears and Cheers - Preliminary Legal Analysis on Patient Groups in China
Patient groups, also known as patient organizations, are non-profit organizations which focus on the interests of majority patients with a particular disease or condition. The roles and activities of patient...Read more
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Xiangjun Kong
Head of Strategic Partnership (Previously Head of Legal), Sanofi China, China
Page 5837
Legal In-house Digitization/Financial Services
Many factors are changing legal services as we know them. We are seeing the internal and external environment changing the banking model and business needs. Increased regulatory requirements, the evolving...Read more
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Andreas Weber
Head Cross-border Legal, Emerging Markets and Change-the Bank, UBS, Ubs, Switzerland