Mondaq

OCTOBER 8, 2021

On 4 October 2021, a seven-member panel of the Privy Council (the "Board") issued its judgment in Broad Idea v Convoy Collateral [2021] UKPC 24, which considered the overruling.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

” Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is a Conference member.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Deputy Jaime Naranjo, representing the accusers, alleged that the president had “openly infringed the constitution and the laws” and “seriously compromised the honor of the nation.”. The transaction was effected in the British Virgin Islands allegedly to evade taxes.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has recently handed down its heavily anticipated Judgment in the conjoined BVI appeals of Broad Idea.

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Mondaq

MARCH 29, 2022

BVI business companies are one of the most commonly used offshore vehicles and our expert team frequently advises on the transfer of shares in BVI companies

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

This landmark legal process involved 28 individuals in the “Panama Papers” case, stemming from the leaked documents of the now-defunct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co., million digital files from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Bureau alleges that Nationstar violated multiple Federal consumer financial laws, causing substantial harm to the borrowers whose mortgage loans it serviced, including distressed homeowners. Each of these acts or failures violated the law. . It also requires Nationstar to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty to the Bureau.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This 2021 investigation is slightly different as it is based on records from these 14 off-shore service providers, whereas the 2016 investigation of the Panama Papers was based on only the records from only a single law firm. The Panama Papers implicated the names of 12 heads of state and caused significant turmoil across the world.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2022

Bidwell , which excluded Puerto Rico from Article I tax law, refers to “an uncivilized race” and the danger of “incorporat[ing] an alien and hostile people into the United States.”. They deserve no place in our law.”. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship through an act of Congress, but not under the Constitution.).

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Mondaq

JULY 7, 2022

The recoverability of foreign lawyers' fees is an issue which has frequently been considered by the British Virgin Islands Courts in recent years. This has resulted in a significant body of case law on the topic.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

link] The Minnesota courts have a detailed page on their Self-Help Centers that provide not only location information but also tools and resources, law, rules & legal research, and how to find legal advice clinics. Guides on resources and legal information and a pointer to Montana Law Help legal services ( [link] ) are also available.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

By Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School Australia. LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. Governing Law.

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2022

A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. “Lexis is a global company whose charge is to maximize profits.”

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 6, 2024

In the years that followed, the State Department had conversations with the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) about how COCA should be implemented. Virgin Islands. Its mission is to promote uniformity in the law among these jurisdictions to the extent desirable and practicable.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 4, 2023

See Béligh Elbalti, “Spontaneous Harmonization and the Liberalization of the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law , Vol. It illustrates the difficulty that Dubai courts (and UAE courts in general) have in dealing with some fundamental concepts of private international law.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. It was not for the English court “to police or to second guess the use of courts of or law in foreign jurisdictions” (at [97]).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The plaintiff, a British Virgin Islands company, claimed that the defendants had committed a tortious conspiracy against it because the Kentucky default judgment was based on fabricated claims intended to defraud it.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 30, 2023

In common law jurisdictions, the question is not free from controversy. Kea Investments Ltd (Kea), a British Virgin Islands company, alleged that the US default judgment was based on fabricated claims intended to defraud Kea. Courts are often required to determine the existence or validity of jurisdiction agreements.

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Parasec

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can also serve as registered agent in Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and many international jurisdictions. These laws are intended to establish consistency with regard to entity formation requirements and business practices—hopefully fostering a more business-friendly climate within the state.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 12, 2024

It also poses very interesting questions of private international law, as in particular the collective actions for damages against tech giants are usually international cases. Applicable law The court established the law applicable to the present dispute under Article 6(3)(a) Rome II Regulation.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 24, 2021

One of the most discussed question within the field of corporate law is whether the competition among States in the ‘incorporation’ business leads to the enhancement of corporate law, or to its detriment. Introduction.

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ALPS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I’m not going to tie much of this into law. Well, we did sail for two days out, we were going out to the British Virgin islands. The location of our home is such that there’s not easy access to trails, although I’m doing a lot of indoor riding and getting the bike legs back.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Yegiazaryan v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

People born in the other territories — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship by act of Congress.) Under a series of cases the Supreme Court decided over 100 ago, known as the Insular Cases, people born in unincorporated U.S. citizenship.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

The wide-reaching effect of a previous Court of Appeal decision on the interpretation of gateway (n) which covers a claim brought under statutes dealing with serious crimes such as corruption and dug trafficking and ‘any other written law’ is also yet to be grasped by litigants. [5]

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2023

In her opening statement, Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee, attacked them as “so-called journalists” and said they were “a direct threat” to the safety of others by reporting the censorship story. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 30, 2022

US Virgin Islands (USVI) Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit Tuesday against JPMorgan Chase, alleging that the bank ignored suspicious financial activity and received financial gain from Jeffery Epstein’s illegal activities. The action was initiated over Epstein’s criminal activities.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2025

However, it claimed that hanging banners reading Keep New England White was motivated by race and interfered with the lawful activities of 2 others. Government regulation of speech is content-based if a law applies to a particular type of speech because of the topic discussed or the idea or message expressed. ” We disagree.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT) is finalizing new federal regulations that would change the definition of a “firearm” under federal law, “potentially making it much harder to build an untraceable weapon,” FiveThirtyEight details. Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 12, 2024

Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), declared , “I hope that [all members] recognize that there is speech that is not constitutionally protected,” and then referenced hate speech as an example. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The issue of fraud could be addressed by the United States court, “with all of the advanced legislative and common law apparatus available to it to do justice between the parties” (at [191]). Kea alleged that the US default judgment obtained by WFTL was based on fabricated claims intended to defraud Kea.

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Customs & International Trade Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: CBP . Virgin Islands and continue to publish the U.S. The post Customs and Trade Law Weekly Snapshot appeared first on Customs & International Trade Law Blog. Census Bureau . Trade with Puerto Rico and U.S. On January 31, 2022, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

When two journalists testified before the subcommittee about their investigations of censorship programs, Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), the subcommittee’s ranking member, called them “so-called journalists.” Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) as “Putin apologists.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2023

Virgin Islands Democrat Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-VI, the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee, attacked the reporters appearing as witnesses as “so-called journalists” and said they were “a direct threat” to the safety of others by reporting the censorship story.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2025

Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate representing the Virgin Islands in the U.S. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. She denounced the member witnesses (Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen.

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