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Posted: May 24th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Nationality and citizenship - On June 16, 2009, a Lebanese court of first instance issued a landmark decision granting Lebanese citizenship to the children of a Lebanese mother married to a non-Lebanese father. Samira Soueidan filed the lawsuit on behalf...
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Posted: May 24th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Mining and mineral resources - On May 19, 2010, the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe, an umbrella organization of companies involved in the mining industry, proposed a much more moderate rule on local ownership of mines than had previously been adopted...
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Posted: May 24th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Health and safety - On May 18, 2010, the HIV Prevention and Control Bill, which seeks to control the spread of the disease and put in place safeguards to protect individuals living with HIV/AIDS, was proposed to the Ugandan Parliament...
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Posted: May 24th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Real property - Taiwan's National Property Administration (NPA), under the Ministry of Finance, has issued new rules on the repurchase of formerly state-owned, non-public use land in Taipei and Taipei County, applicable as of May 13, 2010, whereby the...
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Posted: May 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Freedom of the press - Based on a petition lodged by the Islamic Lawyers' Movement (ILM), Judge Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court in Pakistan issued a court order mandating that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) block access to...
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Posted: May 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Arbitration - With the intention of modernizing its existing law and capitalizing on its great popularity with both business and recreational visitors, Ireland has enacted a new Arbitration Act that will go into force on June 8, 2010....
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Posted: May 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - A Belgian Royal Decree of May 6, 2010, with retroactive effect from January 1, 2010, provides a list of jurisdictions deemed tax havens pursuant to article 307, section 1, items 3-6, of the Income Tax Code...
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Posted: May 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Women - On March 24, 2010, Quebec's Minister of Justice introduced a bill to create an Act to Establish Guidelines Governing Accommodation Requests Within the Administration and Certain Institutions. Although the bill does not specifically mention the practice,...
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Posted: May 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - The Diet, Japan's legislature, amended the country's Criminal Procedure Law to abolish the statute of limitations for murder and other crimes that result in the deaths of persons. The amendments became effective on April 28, 2010,...
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Posted: May 20th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Refugees and asylum - On May 13, 2010, the Australian Parliament passed the Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2010. (Press Release, Hon. Robert McClelland, Hon. Brendan O'Connor, andamp; Sen. Chris Evans, Passage of Legislation to Combat People Smuggling (May...
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Posted: May 20th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Government publications - It was reported on May 17, 2010, that the NIGERIAN MONTHLY LAW REPORTS (NMLR), first published in 1964 and discontinued in 1976, is back in print. (Innocent Anaba, Monthly Law Reports Repackaged, VANGUARD, May 17, 2010,...
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Posted: May 20th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Labor - It was reported on May 14, 2010, that the Ministry of Public Services and Labor (MIFOTRA) of Rwanda is in the process of drafting a new law which, if passed, will put in place safeguards to...
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Posted: May 20th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - On May 13, 2010, the Peshawar High Court in Pakistan dismissed an appeal, thereby upholding a lower court's verdict on the confiscation of the property of General Pervez Musharraf, a former president of the country. The...
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Posted: May 20th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Trade and commerce - Members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) agreed on May 10, 2010, to invite Estonia, Israel, and Slovenia to join the global body. The special welcoming ceremony will take place at the annual...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Intellectual property - The European Union Court of Justice recently considered the issue of resale rights of the works of the painter Salvador Dali. Resale right is an intellectual property right permitting the creator and those entitled under the...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Government finance - On May 9, 2010, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) of the European Union, in response to the grave financial crisis that is currently unfolding in Greece and in an effort to preserve and restore...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Health and safety - The European Union is currently working on drafting new legislation to regulate online sales of medicines. The subject had been omitted from a previous Directive on counterfeit medicines proposed by the European Commission in 2008, which...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Terrorism - The Court of Justice of the European Union, in a judgment issued on April 29, 2010, held that Council Regulation (EC) 881/2002, which imposed a freezing of the funds and other economic resources of persons associated...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - On May 10, 2010, a bill first tabled in 2002 that prescribes cancellation of the current exemption from income tax of active military personnel and teaching professionals passed its first reading in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan. If...
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Posted: May 18th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - On April 30, 2010, the Committee of Foreign Affairs and National Security of the Shura Council (legislature) of Bahrain approved a new provision as an amendment to the Penal Code, Law 15-1976. The new article regulates...
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Posted: May 18th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Human rights - It was reported on April 2, 2010, that a bill targeting human rights activists as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will be discussed by the People's Assembly (lower house) of the Egyptian Parliament in its current...
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Posted: May 18th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Mining and mineral resources - It was reported on May 10, 2010, that Mongolia's National Security Council had the previous week partially amended President Ts. Elbegdorj's April 20, 2010, order temporarily suspending all transactions involving mining licenses. Although new licenses still...
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Posted: May 17th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - India's government has announced it will introduce amendments to the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, to regulate and broaden permissible use of passive (off-the-air interception) of phone conversations. (The Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, Government of India Department...
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Posted: May 14th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Elections - In the view of Human Rights Watch, the new election laws issued in Myanmar (Burma) in March 2010 by the ruling military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SDPC) "are designed to exclude the main...
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Posted: May 13th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Constitutional law - According to Sri Lankan Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena, that country's government is preparing draft constitutional reforms. The proposal is now being considered by the Attorney General and will be presented to the Cabinet before being...
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Posted: May 13th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Terrorism - It was reported on May 10, 2010, that eight people were convicted in Belgium for leading a terrorist group and recruiting people to fight for the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The fighters were...
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Posted: May 12th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Constitutional law - The Grand National Assembly (Turkey's parliament) approved a set of amendments to the Turkish Constitution on May 7, 2010. The changes, proposed by the ruling Justice and Development Party, include a revamping of the Constitutional Court,...
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Posted: May 12th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Commerce and industry - The Romanian Senate adopted a bill on public-private partnerships on May 5, 2010. The legislation, passed by a unanimous vote, seeks to streamline procedures by "regulating the design, financing, construction, operation, rehabilitation, development and transfer of...
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Posted: May 11th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Lawyers - On May 7, 2010, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice (BMBJ) revoked the licenses of two Chinese human rights lawyers, Liu Wei (f) and Tang Jitian (m), permanently disbarring them from practice. At a hearing held...
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Posted: May 11th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Banks and financial institutions - The de Wit Commission, a Dutch parliamentary group set up in 2009 to examine developments and problems in the world financial system in general and of the Netherlands' financial system in particular, published its findings on...
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Posted: May 11th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Government organization - On May 6, 2010, the Ugandan Parliament passed The National Youth Council (Amendment) Bill No. 17 of 2008 and abolished compulsory membership of youths in the village councils of the area of their residence. (Parliament Outlaws...
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Posted: May 11th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Labor - On May 10, 2010, a two-day conference opened in The Hague to discuss a campaign to end the worst forms of child labor. The conference's 450 participants from 80 countries have called for these practices...
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Posted: May 11th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - Taiwan's Legislative Yuan adopted the Law on Swift Criminal Trial on April 23, 2010, in 14 articles. The purpose of the legislation is to ensure that criminal defendants receive a speedy and fair trial. The Law...
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Posted: May 10th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Elections - On May 5, 2010, ALJAZEERA reported that two of the three largest parliamentary blocks who won seats in the recent legislative election in Iraq, the State of Law Coalition and the Iraqi National Coalition, had formed...
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Posted: May 10th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Insurance - It was reported on May 7, 2010, that the constitutionality of a provision of the Road Accident Fund Act on the statutory limitation period for making claims against the Fund is being challenged before South Africa's...
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Posted: May 10th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Health and safety - It was reported on May 6, 2010, that five Danish companies have recently been fined for adding a banned dye to salmon. The additive, sodium nitrite, was found by inspectors from the Danish Veterinary and Food...
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Posted: May 10th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Constitutional law - On April 8, 2010, Pakistan's National Assembly, in a rare unanimous vote of the 292 members present, adopted the landmark Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Bill, which has 102 clauses. Some highlights of the legislation are that it:...
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Posted: May 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Constitutional law - On May 5, 2010, India's Supreme Court ruled that the compulsory use on suspects of narco-analysis, brain-mapping, and polygraph testing is illegal. The Court declared: "[w]e are of the considered opinion that no individual can be...
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Posted: May 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Women - On April 29, 2010, the Belgian Chamber of Representatives voted 136 in favor, none opposed, with two abstentions to ban the wearing of clothing that covers or partly covers the face (Compte rendu integral, S;ance pl;niandegrave;re...
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Posted: May 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - With the support of the United Nations, Seychelles will establish a center to prosecute pirates apprehended by the European Union Naval Force Somalia Operation (EU NAVFOR). Located to the south of the Horn of Africa in...
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Posted: May 6th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Real property - In a move designed to make Indonesia attractive to foreign retirees, the government is considering revising regulations to permit foreigners over the age of 55 to own property. (Govt to Allow Old Foreigners to Own Property,...
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Posted: May 6th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Communications and electronic information - On April 27, 2010, Taiwan's legislature passed amendments to the 1995 Computer-Processed Personal Data Protection Law (Tien-nao ch'u-li ke-jen tzu-liao pao-hu fa). Under the proposed amendment, the Law's name will change to simply the Personal Data...
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Posted: May 6th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Elections - On April 6, 2009, United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that a General Parliamentary Election (also commonly referred to as a general election or national election) would be held on May 6, 2010. A significant...
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Posted: May 5th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Border security - On April 24, 2010, the State Council of China published a decision amending the Implementation Measures of the People's Republic of China Law on Entry and Exit of Aliens (hereinafter "Measures"), which lifted the ban in...
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Posted: May 5th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Education - A new Journalist Statute was approved by the Cape Verdean Parliament in April 2010 and must be voted on by the National Assembly in May 2010 before it can come into force. According to the...
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Posted: May 5th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Government ethics - On April 23, 2010, during the International Conference to Fight Corruption that was held in Dili, East Timor, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Timor, Zacarias da Costa, was quoted as saying that in order...
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Posted: May 4th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Health and safety - Belgium's Law of March 31, 2010, on the Compensation for Damages Resulting from Medical Care, was published in the Moniteur Belge, Belgium's official gazette, on April 2, 2010. (Loi du 31 mars 2010 relative andagrave; l'indemnisation...
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Posted: May 4th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - Luxembourg#MORIAL, Luxembourg's official gazette, on March 11, 2010 (Loi...
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Posted: May 4th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Border security - On April 24, 2010, the State Council of China published a decision amending the Implementation Measures of the People's Republic of China Law on Entry and Exit of Aliens (hereinafter "Measures"), which lifted the ban in...
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Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Lawyers - On April 28, 2010, a meeting was held in Amman, Jordan, to review the United Nations program to provide legal assistance to detainees in Iraq. Aid for their legal defense has been available through 20 centers,...
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Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Education - On March 31, 2010, the Diet (Japan's parliament) enacted a law to subsidize all or part of high school tuition (Kand#333;ritsu kand#333;tand#333; gakkand#333; ni kakaru jugyand#333; ryand#333; no fu chand#333;shu oyobi kand#333;tand#333; gakkand#333; tand#333; shand#363;gaku shien...
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Posted: April 30th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Freedom of information - On April 30, 2010, Indonesia's Law on Freedom of Information will come into effect; it was adopted in 2008. Under its provisions, public institutions, including government ministries, state agencies, and legislative and judicial institutions, are obligated...
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Posted: April 30th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Commerce and industry - On April 22, 2010, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's Acting President, signed into law the Local Content Bill 2010 [the Act], a piece of legislation designed to increase participation of Nigerian ventures and workforce in the oil sector....
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Posted: April 26th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Health and safety - On March 17, 2010, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed the Fighting of the Phenomena of Drunkenness (Temporary Provision and Amendment) Law, 5770-2010. According to explanatory notes for the government bill, the Law was designed to address...
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Posted: April 26th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Real property - China's State Council (Cabinet) issued a notice on April 17, 2010, authorizing banks to refuse mortgage loans to purchasers of third homes and to those unable to give proof of either residence in a city or...
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Posted: April 26th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Government ethics - On April 20, 2010, Liberia's President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, sent a bill to the country's two legislative bodies, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The bill contained the text of a proposed law to protect...
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Posted: April 26th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Commerce and industry - On April 19, 2010, the European Union adopted new, revised antitrust rules (a Regulation and Guidelines) for so-called vertical agreements, that is, supply and distribution agreements. Vertical agreements raise antitrust issues by limiting competition when an...
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Posted: April 23rd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Children - One of the important policies of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has been the provision of a monthly child allowance for all children, regardless of the parents' income. In March 2007, the DPJ raised the...
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Posted: April 23rd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Firearms - It was reported on April 19, 2010, that Nepal's Cabinet has under consideration a proposal to amend the Arms and Ammunition Regulation 2029 [1972], chiefly to raise licensing fees. Licenses to carry arms anywhere in the...
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Posted: April 23rd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Energy - On April 2, 2010, the General Office of China's State Council circulated the Opinions on Accelerating the Implementation of Energy Management Contracts to Promote the Development of the Energy Service Industry (hereinafter Opinions) (Guo Ban Fa...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Courts - On April 19, 2010, United Nations Under Secretary-General Patricia O'Brien, the U.N. Legal Counsel, called for donors to contribute funds to support the genocide tribunal in Cambodia. The tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Religion - On April 19, 2010, the Constitutional Court of Indonesia held that a 1965 blasphemy law does not contravene the Constitution and is necessary to ensure public order and religious harmony. The judges found that a request...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Mining and mineral resources - Ireland's Parliament (the Oireachtas) has recently enacted a new Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Act, Act 4/2010 (Ir.). The Act has not yet been published in the Irish Statute Book (it would have been available through...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Commerce and industry - On April 16, 2010, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan adopted the Statute for Industrial Innovation, which will take the place of the expired Statute for Upgrading Industries. Under the new law, the government will be able to encourage...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Family - On April 14, 2010, the Constitutional Court of Italy upheld the country's prohibition against same-sex marriages. The question brought before the Court by the appeals court of Trento and the tribunal of Venice was whether provisions...
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Posted: April 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Tobacco and smoking - On April 1, 2010, the Peruvian Congress passed Law No. 29517, which declares all closed facilities, health care centers, educational centers, public and private means of transportation, and the interiors of workplaces to be smoke-free environments....
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Posted: April 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Treaties and agreements - Since May 2008, two months after the first-stage of the Open Skies Agreement came into effect, the European Union and the United States have been engaged in seven rounds of negotiations on a second-phase air transport...
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Posted: April 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Nationality and citizenship - On April 2, 2010, the Belgian Council of Ministers endorsed a draft law amending the Belgian Nationality Code. The proposal was presented to the Council by Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck. (Press Release, Premier Ministre de...
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Posted: April 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Trade and commerce - A trade agreement between Colombia and the European Union is ready to be signed by the parties, possibly on May 19, 2010, during the fourth summit, in Madrid, of the EU and Latin American and Caribbean...
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Posted: April 21st, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Intellectual property - On February, 22, 2010, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), an independent authority that plays an advisory role to the European Commission, issued an opinion regarding compatibility between the Antiand#8209;Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and...
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Women - On March 30, 2010, the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, acting in its capacity as legal adviser to the French government, presented a report on the legal basis for a complete ban on the wearing...
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Immigration - On March 31, 2010, the French Immigration Minister presented a new draft law on immigration, integration, and nationality to the Council of Ministers. (Projet de loi relative andagrave; l'immigration, andagrave; l'int;gration et andagrave; la nationalit;, LEGIFRANCE,...
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Extradition - In an apparent attempt to diffuse a bitter dispute with the United States over an extradition request presented by U.S. officials, Prime Minister Bruce Golding of Jamaica has asked the courts to review his actions in...
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Transportation - The Tongan government stated on April 9, 2010, that it accepts the recommendations of the Royal Commission that was established to inquire into the August 2009 sinking of the Princess Ashika ferry in which 74 people...
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Intellectual property - On April 6, 2010, Tjekero Tweya, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, introduced the Industrial Property Bill in the Namibian Parliament for floor action. The bill is intended to replace the fragmented legislation currently in place...
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Posted: April 16th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
International law - The Bangladesh Parliament ratified the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 23, 2010, making Bangladesh the 111th state to join the ICC. Bangladesh had signed the statute in 1999, but did not...
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Posted: April 16th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Right of privacy - Malaysia's House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) passed a bill on April 5, 2010, that would for the first time codify a comprehensive data protection framework for Malaysian enterprises. The bill will now proceed to the Senate...
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Posted: April 16th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Criminal law and procedure - It was reported on April 1, 2010, that the caning sentence of part-time model and mother of two Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, which had been delayed since August 2008, has now been commuted, despite Kartika's wish...
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Posted: April 14th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Extradition - On April 9, 2010, the Supreme Court of Namibia declared a provision of the 1996 Namibian Extradition Act, which imposes unlimited detention on a person found eligible for extradition, unconstitutional. The ruling came as a result...
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Posted: April 14th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Children - South Africa's Child Justice Act, 2008, legislation seeking to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility and to establish a process separate from what is prescribed by the regular criminal justice system for dealing with child...
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Posted: April 14th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Intellectual property - The State Council promulgated amended Regulations of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights on March 24, 2010. The revisions affect articles 11, 23, 24, 27, and 28 of the...
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Posted: April 13th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Banks and financial institutions - On April 12, 2010, a Special Investigation Committee of the Althingi, Iceland's parliament, released a special report on the collapse in 2008 of the country's financial system. (Available in Icelandic, together with excerpts in English entitled...
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Posted: April 13th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Children - On March 17, 2010, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed an amendment to the Youth Law (Treatment and Supervision) requiring stronger protections for minors from exposure to being photographed than those previously in place. Prior...
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Posted: April 13th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Human rights - According to a survey released on April 9, 2010, between 70 and 80% of those detained by the police in Indonesia were the victims of torture while in custody. The survey was done by the Indonesian...
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Posted: April 12th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Family - On March 17, 2010, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed an amendment to the Women's Labor Law extending the leave to which a parent is entitled after the birth of a child. The extension of the leave...
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Posted: April 12th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Family - On April 8, 2010, the Portuguese Constitutional Tribunal confirmed the legitimacy of a law, passed in January 2010 by the Parliament, which modifies the definition of marriage in the new Civil Code. According to the law,...
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Posted: April 9th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - On January 1, 2010, Benin adopted a new Finance Law; it went into effect on the same day. The new provisions change the withholding tax rates on payments to individual, non-resident service providers to 25% from...
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Posted: April 9th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Family - On March 15, 2010, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed a law authorizing the registration of spousal agreements. The law was designed to enable the portion of the population that does not belong to any recognized religion,...
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Posted: April 8th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Legislative power - The Government of Canada has recently introduced a bill that would limit persons appointed to the Senate after its enforcement date to one term of eight years. (An Act to Amend the Constitution Act (Senate Term...
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Posted: April 8th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Constitutional law - On April 1, 2010, the Kenyan Parliament unanimously approved a new Constitution. (Daniel Makosky, Kenya Parliament Approves Constitution Draft, PAPER CHASE NEWSBURST, Apr. 2, 2010, available at
[jurist.law.pitt.edu] Proposed Constitution of Kenya, Committee of...
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Posted: April 8th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Communications and electronic information - The Ministry of Justice will soon launch a draft proposal for a law that would regulate the use of the Internet in Brazil. The proposal is designed to define responsibilities for website contents, as well...
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Posted: April 8th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Courts - The United Nations internal appeals tribunal, established in 2009 to handle disputes between staff members and managers of the international body, handled 33 cases in its first session. The judgments will be translated into all the...
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Posted: April 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Foreign investment - On February 11, 2010, the Government of India approved new rules on foreign direct investment. They were issued on March 26 by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and entered into force on April...
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Posted: April 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Legal systems - At the Lao Government's last monthly meeting, held March 29-31, 2010, seven legal documents were approved in principle. The documents are designed to support the country's socio-economic development and efforts to strengthen rule of law. The...
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Posted: April 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - The Government of Liechtenstein adopted the Law on Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters on March 30, 2010. This legislation will facilitate the implementation of agreements on the exchange of tax information the nation has concluded. There...
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Posted: April 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Human rights - On April 5, 2010, a court in Thailand denied a request from that nation's government for an injunction against protesters in the capital city of Bangkok. The request concerned protesters in the business district and would...
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Posted: April 7th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Freedom of the press - On March 30, 2010, the interim government of Fiji announced plans to hold consultation sessions between April 7 and April 10 as it seeks to finalize the Media Industry Development Decree 2010. (Press Release, International Federation...
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Posted: April 5th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - On March 25, 2010, Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) announced new measures that permit foreign firms or their branch companies that conduct warehousing or simple processing operations in Taiwan's free trade zones (FTZs) and...
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Posted: April 5th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - On March 15, 2010, the Delhi High Court delivered a ruling on the issue of whether Indian companies that pay mobilization and demobilization costs to foreign parent companies must withhold a sum for taxes. The case,...
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Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
Taxation - Member countries of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information (GFTEI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have recently launched a new peer review mechanism to help combat cross-border tax evasion....