Vol.14, No. 56, Summer 2021

Force Majeure clauses are often incorporated by practising lawyers (other than Counsels) as a matter of practice in drafting commercial contracts, be they domestic or transnational, apparently without realising that...Read more

It is a common practice amongst employers in India to have a provision incorporated into the employment contracts that in some fashion restricts the employees from pursuing activities contrary to...Read more

In early 2006, I was pulled into a battle, which became but one in a whole series of battles that have since become referred to as the “Smartphone Wars” –...Read more

Implementing an effective Compliance program can be complicated and challenging in the best of times, especially when you operate globally in a rapidly changing environment. These challenges and complexities have...Read more

Is the pendulum shifting? In a fast, technology-driven world, business stakeholders are keen to move away from dense walls of text in contracts. Increasingly, they understand that contracts are a...Read more

Data management is an organizational service in term of designing , organizing, and delivering data and knowledge .Research Data Management (RDM) is data management within the context of research activities....Read more

Especially within the current networked society, with long chains of production and distribution, and holding chains, it is easy to conceive corporations more as faceless fiction. Yet, liability cannot be...Read more

The traditional finance market is centralized. Central authorities issue the currency that powers our economy. Centralized financial organizations, e.g., banks, control our assets. Hence, the ability to regulate the flow...Read more

Over 35 years of working with legal documents I have seen more horrors than is healthy: services agreements with goods warranties wallowing in the undergrowth; clauses that ran for hundreds...Read more

On Friday 21 June 2019, City A.M. reported that “Trainline’s shares soared on their first day of trading today after the tech giant made its £1.7bn stock market debut. The...Read more

The limited liability has been the foundation of the corporate legal framework since the establishment of the corporate legal concept, and the parent company and its subsidiary are separate entities,...Read more

Globally we have been in a strange situation for almost 18 months. Covid 19 has created havoc worldwide. Many lives have been lost and families destroyed. Livelihoods of many have...Read more

As we continue to zoom in and out of each other’s lives, the curtain rises on the global stage with an inconsistent tempo for in-house counsel managing employment issues. We...Read more

Let’s face it: the role of in-house lawyers has never been more complex. It is no longer limited to ensuring that the organisation meets its legal obligations nor providing legal...Read more

The importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the workforce has never been discussed as today. For most companies, globally speaking, this theme is one of the priorities in 2021.Although many...Read more

There is great unpredictability in the current geopolitical, economic and emotional climate globally and trying to find conviction in such times is fraught with variables which seem untraversable. However, Intellectual...Read more

The Covid-19 crisis has seen the emergence of a digital divergence. Online businesses are on the quick ascendance, while bricks and mortar businesses are moving in the opposite direction, on...Read more

What does it mean for an organisation to govern and innovate for good? What principles can organisations enshrine – structurally or otherwise – to ensure the common good is always...Read more