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Year of the Dragon for Gulf oil and gas producersJust as the Eurozone crisis is deepening and European states are turning to world’s richest countries for assistance, the Middle East region’s oil-rich states are increasingly forming alliances with China.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 27 January 2012
City of London buys into year of the DragonCity lawyers in London have welcomed a deal struck with Beijing to transform the UK into an offshore trading hub for China’s renminbi (RMB), but stress it is only the first step in a long-term process.
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Friday, 27 January 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 27 January 2012
Webcast interview with Kalidou Gadio, General Counsel, African Development BankThe African Development Bank provides financial support to efforts that seek to channel Africa's riches to mobilise capital and credit. In this webcast, the bank’s General Counsel, Kalidou Gadio, will discuss such efforts, highlight the critical links between law and development in general, and discuss related specific issues such as the African Legal Support Facility, which aims to address the serious problem of vulture funds.
Prominent Sudanese-British BBC broadcast journalist Zeinab Badawi interviews.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 5 March 2012
Webcast interview with Chris Saul, Senior Partner, Slaughter & MayOn Tuesday 13 March the IBA conducted a webcast interview and Q&A with Chris Saul, Senior Partner at Magic Circle law firm Slaughter and May. Saul has spent 35 years at the firm which is regularly recognised as the most profitable in the City. The firm frequently advises the most sought-after clients in the corporate and banking spheres, as well as the Treasury.
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 17 September 2012
Webcast interview with Kalidou Gadio, General Counsel, African Development Bank - filmThe African Development Bank provides financial support to efforts that seek to channel Africa's riches to mobilise capital and credit. In this webcast, the bank’s General Counsel, Kalidou Gadio, discussed such efforts, highlighted the critical links between law and development in general, and discussed related specific issues such as the African Legal Support Facility, which aims to address the serious problem of vulture funds. Film.
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Monday, 5 March 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 5 March 2012
Dodd-Frank 'puts a Grand Canyon between the US and the rest of the world'The so-called ‘Volcker rule’, intended to reduce banks’ ability to take excessive risks by restricting proprietary trading and investments in hedge funds and private equity, is due to take effect in the US by 21 July 2012. Named after Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, it’s one of the reforms included in the Dodd-Frank Act, signed into law by President Obama in July 2010 as a response to the financial crisis.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Greece bailout: doubts remain despite largest government debt restructuring in historyOn 8 March, holders of Greek debt agreed the largest government debt restructuring in history, and the world’s largest ever liability management transaction. The aim is to cut the Greek government's debt from 160 per cent of GDP to a little over 120 per cent of GDP by 2020. But will it work?
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Friday, 23 March 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 30 March 2012
Russian elections: Putin again despite the protestsScenes of protests wracked the streets of Moscow in December 2011 following widespread public outcry over alleged voting fraud in Russia’s parliamentary elections. More protests followed in the run-up to the elections in March this year but Vladimir Putin finally emerged triumphant with an estimated 64 per cent of the vote.
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 30 March 2012
UK Secretary of State for Justice forced to defend 'secret justice' proposalsUK Secretary of State for Justice Ken Clarke has again been forced to publicly defend his proposals to extend the use of Close Material Proceedings (CMPs), often referred to as secret trials. Clarke proposes to use such trials in civil cases involving terrorist suspects and sensitive intelligence material, including those claiming they suffered extraordinary rendition and torture.
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Wednesday, 4 April 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Blix condemns ‘shocking’ lack of legal debate over Iran nuclear threatThe former United Nations weapons inspection chief has fiercely criticised Western politicians for ignoring legal constraints in discussions over Iran and its nuclear capabilities.
Hans Blix, who voiced strong doubts about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) following inspections in 2002, believes that aggressive rhetoric by the US, UK, France and Germany has been ‘supercilious’ and ‘contemptuous’, and has put politics and security before international law.
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 27 April 2012
Email and internet surveillance proposals raise privacy concernsThe UK government is planning to introduce legislation that allows the police and security services to have ‘on demand’ access to online information in real time. The proposals – yet to be released – are expected to be outlined in the Queen's speech on 9 May 2012.
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Thursday, 26 April 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Uganda activists sue government over oil Production Sharing AgreementsThe Ugandan government is in dispute with activists over its failure to disclose the contents of Production Sharing contracts with oil exploration companies operating in the country.
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Ched Evans case raises further questions on future of social mediaIn April, a UK Crown Court found Sheffield United footballer, Ched Evans, guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman and sentenced him to five years in prison. Following the verdict, the name of the victim was leaked on various websites, primarily social networking site Twitter, where she was also subjected to abuse.
It is the latest episode to throw a spotlight on the use of social media and related questions of regulation and legislation.
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Thursday, 10 May 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Nuclear talks must address human rights, says Nobel laureateThe forthcoming nuclear talks between Iran and the West must act as a stepping stone to address the more urgent issues of civil and political rights, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, told IBA Global Insight during an exclusive interview.
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Monday, 14 May 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Behind Lubanga: the battle for gold in the CongoThe International Criminal Court conviction of Thomas Lubanga on 14 March highlighted the fierce power struggles that have ravaged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for decades. Yet, behind the abuses for which the region has become notorious, lies a timeless conflict: the battle for wealth and power. In the DRC this means the battle for gold and other minerals.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Joseph E Stiglitz announced as opening speaker of IBA 2012 Annual ConferenceThe Nobel Prize in Economics Laureate Joseph E Stiglitz, is today announced as the keynote speaker of the International Bar Association’s 2012 Annual Conference. The Conference will take place at the Convention Centre Dublin (CCD), between 30 September and 5 October in Dublin, Ireland.
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Monday, 28 May 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 1 June 2012
‘Big Monthly’ exposes failings in Brazilian political systemThe Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) is about to judge one of the country’s most important political corruption cases of recent years: the so-called Mensalão or ‘Big Monthly’ scandal that brought down several senior members of the last government. Beyond tabloid-style headlines about wads of cash in brown paper bags, the case highlights some serious structural weaknesses in Brazil's political system that hamper economic and social development.
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Ken Clarke climbs down on secret justiceUK Secretary of State for Justice Ken Clarke has watered down his proposals to extend the use of Close Material Proceedings (CMPs), often referred to as secret trials, after they were met with considerable outrage from the legal profession, the opposition, coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, and civil liberties pressure groups.
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Presidential elections are ‘disaster’ for Egypt, say reformistsEgypt’s run-off presidential election, between a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a member of the old regime, has been described as a ‘disaster’ by reformist lawyers, politicians and activists.
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Friday, 1 June 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 1 June 2012
Europe prepares for Greece to make a drachma out of a crisisWhile many commentators speak of the possibility of a Greek exit from the eurozone as if it were the financial equivalent of a nuclear holocaust, we have in fact been through something like this before. Greece was thrown out of the Latin Monetary Union just over a hundred years ago, having violated the agreement that set it up by repeatedly debasing its currency in relation to those of other states in the club.
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Friday, 1 June 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 1 June 2012
Syria conflict prompts calls for UN Security Council to reassess legal obligations under CharterThe impasse at the United Nations Security Council over what action to take to prevent further civilian deaths in Syria has prompted calls for a fundamental reassessment of how countries use their veto.
The Security Council unanimously adopted a statement on 27 May which condemned the Syrian government for a massacre in which 108 people were killed, including 34 children. However, it was blocked from taking stronger action by Russia, Syria’s long-time ally, and China.
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Thursday, 7 June 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
EU takes tough stand on Somali piratesSomali pirates have hijacked hundreds of ships in the past few years and have netted hundreds of millions of dollars from the hijackings, money that they often reinvest in weapons. Recently, they have attacked ships as far away as Sri Lanka, more than 2,000 miles from home.
A recent overnight raid on Somali pirate bases is small but significant. This is the first time since the EU set up its naval patrol force off Somalia in December 2008 that it has taken the fight to the pirates' home base.
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Friday, 15 June 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 15 June 2012
Vultures profit from Greek tragedyThe Greek economy has been in a bad state for quite some time. So when the country’s caretaker government announced in May that it was making a €436 million bond payment to investors who had rejected the debt restructuring deal agreed by a previous administration in March, it came as no surprise. Why make a bad situation worse by defaulting on a bond payment?
Of this payout, almost 90 per cent reportedly went to Dart Management, a secretive investment fund based in the Cayman Islands [continues]...
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Friday, 15 June 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Faltering Facebook IPO sparks class actionFacebook’s initial public offering (IPO) on 18 May this year could not have seemed more Web 2.0. By Wednesday 23 May – as the price of shares slid further - retail investors began to see it differently. They filed class action complaints against Facebook – not just because of losses they claimed to have suffered from the delays on NASDAQ, but because of the way the company itself had handled the IPO process. They alleged the business had misrepresented the stock value.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 2 July 2012