The Luxembourg Arbitration Association a.s.b.l. (“LAA”), a non-profit organisation founded in 1996, and dedicated to the promotion and development of arbitration practice in Luxembourg, is proud to announce the launch of its website: www.luxarbitration.com Looking for an arbitrator, a counsel or a tribunal secretary? You will find all this and more in the “Members” tab. […]
That we finally have another general election has been widely anticipated. So much for the Fixed-term Parliaments Act – something of a misnomer since this will be the third such election in four years. Now that the campaign is fully underway, the outcome nevertheless remains uncertain given the unreliability of opinion polls and the enormous […]
The night club. The speedboat. The mob. The booze cruise. The spread of jazz. The cocktail. What do they all have in common? They are the results, direct and indirect, of Prohibition. The hundredth anniversary of legislation which introduced the banning of alcohol in the United States recently passed without much notice. But its effect […]
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) sets itself apart from other offshore and onshore centres through the speed, efficiency and flexibility with which it deals with matters, especially those arising from fraud. Absent a statutory gateway for standalone injunctive relief, the Courts in the BVI have long grappled with extending relief to an aggrieved party who […]
It’s law firm directory season once again. Marketing professionals everywhere are celebrating the rankings of their firms and individual partners in the latest editions of the Chambers and Legal 500 directories. Their excited, self-congratulatory posts on LinkedIn serve to show just how much they matter. These directories have been part of the legal landscape for […]
I can still recall the excitement of my first Amazon order in 1996 – a book delivered from amazon.com in the US took just a few days to arrive on my desk in Hong Kong. A generation later, Amazon has put a tentative toe in the online legal services market. My sense of excitement is […]
Anvisa is expected to enact rules for the use of Cannabis for medical purposes as early as 2019 Eyes and attention are focused on the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária – Anvisa), the Brazilian regulatory agency responsible for the execution of sanitary control, regulation, approval and supervision of pharmaceutical, health […]
Corruption in Panama is nothing new. The country’s notorious former leader, Manuel Noriega, was convicted by a US court in 1992 of racketeering, drug smuggling, and money laundering. After serving a long US prison sentence, in 2010, he was sentenced in France to a further seven years in prison for money laundering. According to Transparency […]
Two recent media stories have featured prominently in relation to where Britain’s drug laws are heading. In isolation, the arguments supporting each of them make sense, but put together they demonstrate how contradictory our legal system and public health policy might become, should they both be realised simultaneously. The first story concerned a government green […]
An early mantra for Trump’s 2020 presidential election campaign has already made its mark at Republican rallies. The antithesis of woke, Donald supporters now break into a chilling new chant: “Send her back!” The object of their vilification is Somali-born Ilhan Omar, who serves as a congressional democrat in Minnesota. It echoes the 2016 campaign […]
As law firm revenues and profits continue to reach new heights so do the buildings which house their industrious lawyers, most especially in London. The scope and scale of this vaulting ambition can be measured by the architectural majesty of their newly opened offices, or those which they soon plan to occupy. In a competitive […]
On 4 July 2019, the French Anti-Corruption Agency’s (the AFA) Enforcement Committee (the Enforcement Committee) issued its first and much-awaited decision since its creation by the so-called “Sapin II” Law in France (the Decision)[1]. The Enforcement Committee found that none of the alleged five breaches of the anti-corruption requirements set out in Article 17 of […]
