JURIST

MARCH 16, 2023

The UK Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that a full public trial must be held to evaluate Ukraine’s “arguable and justiciable defence of duress” in relation to a $3 billion debt the nation owes to Russia. In 2013, Ukraine issued Eurobonds to Russia worth $3 billion, effectively a loan by Russia to Ukraine repayable in December 2015.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2023

Facebook submitted that the corporation itself conducted no commercial transactions in Australia, and that the installation and removal of “cookies” onto users’ devices does not constitute a business transaction. ” If prosecuted, the penalty for repeated privacy breaches incurs a penalty of $2.2

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2023

The UK announced Thursday that it would reduce the number of staff at its embassy in Niger amidst ongoing social unrest over a military-led coup that occurred last week. The UK joins other countries, such as the US and multiple EU states, in reducing or evacuating its citizens from Niger. They may yet adopt to take further actions.

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JURIST

JUNE 25, 2023

The body has its own set of standards, the “ FATF Standards “, in measuring the legitimacy of money transactions of each country. Besides active evaluations, the organization also releases the “ FATF Recommendations ” to guide authorities in tracing illegal money transactions and taking corresponding actions.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2024

The NAB claimed Khan’s 2019 cabinet approved transferring £190 million repatriated by the UK’s National Crime Agency to the Supreme Court for Bahria Town’s liability payment. The IHC questioned the transparency of this transaction and suggested the trial court thoroughly examine the evidence.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The marriage was later registered in the UK “after a long period of time” since its conclusion. 4) As the marriage was contracted in Pakistan and later registered in the UK, the marriage and its financial effects should be governed by Pakistani law. The parties entered into their marriage in Pakistan in accordance with Pakistani law.

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LexForti

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The transaction was multi-geographical wherein the Acquirer being a listed company in the UK acquiring an Indian wholly-owned subsidiary from its Singapore Holding Company. A&A advised the Acquirer on the above transaction including conducting legal due diligence and closing of the transaction documents.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The recent news story of Reverend Mike Hall demonstrates how sophisticated fraudsters can impersonate a property owner's identity and, ultimately, change the legal ownership of a property.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The ED press release stated that it has filed a Supplementary Prosecution Complaint against Non-Resident Indian (NRI) CC Thampi—who is based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—and UK national Sumit Chadha under the anti-money laundering law Prevention of Money Laundering Act in a special court. Additionally, properties worth Rs. Crore (USD 3.1

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 12, 2021

The fact that a foreign judgment can be readily enforced aids the prompt settlement of disputes and makes international commercial transactions more effective. A foreign judgment that cannot be enforced is useless no matter how well it is/was written.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What is the legal position where A and B jointly own a property; B forges A's signature on the transfer to C who is aware of the forgery; and C charges the property to D?

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LawSites

JUNE 27, 2023

While those document analysis tools have been focused on the litigation side of legal practice, LexisNexis is today unveiling a document analysis tool designed for transactional attorneys, to help them research, negotiate and close transactional agreements. Future releases will add other transaction types.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 1, 2021

November has seen a number of developments in preparation for full implementation on 4 January 2022 of the UK's new investment screening regime, the National Security & Investment Act.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The embezzlement allegedly occurred during transactions between the ex-governor and the brokerage company Optimum Invest. Additionally, Canada, the UK and the US imposed sanctions against him for corruption and personal enrichment. Riad Salameh was the head of Lebanon’s central bank for 30 years.

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LawSites

MARCH 13, 2024

Within a year, the company launched its native cloud platform, iManage Cloud, and then went on to make several key acquisitions, including of UK artificial intelligence company RAVN Systems in 2017 and of legal transaction management company Closing Folders in 2020.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2021

.” Some other prominent names which have also been revealed are the Arab Emirates United Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , King Abdulla II of Jordan (who allegedly bought luxury homes worth $100 million in the UK and the US using offshore companies), Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta (who amassed more than $30m of offshore wealth).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 5, 2023

The Centre for Private International Law is organising an online research seminar on Beyond the Civil – Common Law Divide: Islamic Shari’a Principles in Shari’a Based International Arbitration Disputes on 14 March 2023, 14:00 – 15:30 UK time.

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Mondaq

JULY 20, 2022

Post-Brexit, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reviewing complex international transactions in parallel with the European Commission (EC).

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Mondaq

AUGUST 15, 2022

On 20 July, the UK government prohibited for the first time a transaction under the new National Security and Investment Act 2021 ("NSIA").

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Cenza

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cenza is an established global ALSP serving clients in the US and UK from India with scalable, cost‐effective, and reliable managed legal services built on best‐in‐class technology, deep operational expertise, rigorous quality control, and robust client service. The full press release is here.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

From the number of transactions we worked on in 2021, the level of interest for UK residential property from Hong Kong and Asia based investors continues unabated despite the best efforts of the pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In the context of a claim brought by the victim of a fraud against the perpetrator, seeking damages for consequential loss of investment opportunity in relation to certain fraudulent transactions, the Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by the fraudster.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2021

” The abstract reads as follows: “The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Belhaj v Straw defined foreign affairs non-justiciability and unearthed its constitutional foundations.

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LawSites

APRIL 11, 2023

Since then, it has made several key acquisitions, including of UK artificial intelligence company RAVN Systems in 2017 and of legal transaction management company Closing Folders in 2020. See a brief demo video of iManage Closing Folders on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.)

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SimplyLawJobs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Fletcher’s, one of the largest UK firms dealing with medical negligence, have been trialling their own “robot lawyer” as a decision support system. Studies carried out in 2017 by three universities found that analysis by AI of 584 judicial decisions was able to predict outcomes with 79% accuracy. Document analysis.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 21, 2021

In 2019, the Financial Times wrote: The UK system, with its blend of openness to foreign bids and investment. s regulation, the Government is expanding the areas of its own scrutiny to more industries, exercising an intrusiveness that compresses a general transactional freedom. 2] The UK must guard against protectionism , Fin.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 16, 2025

The author argues that the foreign judgment on the insolvency matters term covers not only the judgments on initiation of bankruptcy/insolvency, but also other related judgments like those on vicarious liability, avoidance of transactions and settlement agreements.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Aside from the practical aspects of the evolving counterfeit trade, TikTok user Alexa Rose Healy – who has highlighted “Gucci dupes” from Chinese platform DHgate on her account – told World Trademark Review that age and social media culture have a lot to do with it.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 28, 2025

This article then asks specifically what tasks artificial intelligence would be asked to do as part of an antibribery program, and evaluates the capacity of artificial intelligence to perform those tasks given the already determined system requirements and constraints.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 8, 2025

Introduction The recent decision of the UK High Court ( Court ) in Tyson International Company Limited ( Tyson ) v. The principal issue in the case revolved around the harmonious application of two conflicting dispute resolution clauses contained in two separate agreements pertaining to the same transaction. 2021] EWHC 2015 (TCC)

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The portability of foreign judgments across borders helps to faciliate cross-border transactions by lowering transaction costs and associated legal friction among countries. PM – 2:00 PM 9(HKT) on the The Asian Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Purchasing is very often more than just a simple transaction between buyer and supplier,” with consumption being a social experience in many cases, and the influence of others playing a role in what we buy.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 2, 2023

17] If the transaction were to proceed, the control over Activision’s game franchises would allow Microsoft to harm competition by manipulating pricing, functionality, and terms of use. [18] In the United Kingdom, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigates unfair behavior in order to promote competitive markets. [10] 2, 2023).

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Purchasing is very often more than just a simple transaction between buyer and supplier,” with consumption being a social experience in many cases, and the influence of others playing a role in what we buy.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 27, 2021

When the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 at midnight, it entered the transition period stipulated in the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement. Maultzsch: International Jurisdiction for Liability and Recourse Claims in the Wake of Cum-Ex Transactions. Wagner: Judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters after Brexit.

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The Fashion Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Put simply, NFTs are digital tokens that store information and are linked to an (often digital) asset, and managed on a blockchain, which acts as an immutable digital ledger recording details of transactions. NFTs are akin to a certificate of title to the asset.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 14, 2023

Foreign Judgments (Day 1, Panel 2) Tobias Lutzi The first panel dedicated to foreign judgments began with Aygun Mammadzada (Swansea Law School) making the case for the UK and Singapore ratifying the 2019 HCCH Judgments Convention. However, could data be treated as ‘property’ and subject to a commercial contract?

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