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  • Representative Offices of Foreign Financial Institutions in China

    China 17.09.2002
    Act as liaison office The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has reiterated that representative offices set up by foreign financial institutions in China are only allowed to engage in non-operating activities...
  • Additional requirements for Russian EGMs and AGMs

    Russia 13.09.2002
    The Russian Federal Commission for the Securities Market recently issued a Directive approving additional requirements concerning the preparation, convocation and holding of General Meetings. Among the...
  • The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 ('PIDA'): Legal implications and definitions

    United Kingdom 12.09.2002
    (Originally published in February 2002 by the BBA in their publication "Whistle While You Work: Key Issues for Implementing PIDA and Putting in Place a Whistleblowing Policy") PIDA provides protection...
  • The PRC Water Law amended

    China 12.09.2002
    The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress recently approved the amendment to the PRC Water Law that has been in place since 1988. The amended Water Law has eight chapters, covering such...
  • Zoiks, Scoobydoo.co.uk! Fan loses domain name to Hanna-Barbera on appeal

    United Kingdom 11.09.2002
    Today, media giant Hanna-Barbera successfully appealed an earlier domain name decision in which the adjudicating Expert had rejected Hanna-Barbera's claim that the registration of scoobydoo.co.uk to a...
  • Film Finance: breach of warranty/waiver 2

    United Kingdom 11.09.2002
    Court of Appeal upholds HIH v AXA decision The Court of Appeal recently upheld Mr Jules Sher QC's judgment in HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd -v- AXA Corporate Solutions & Anor. As Law-Now reported...
  • The ICC as a forum for construction disputes resolution

    United Kingdom 10.09.2002
    The ICC's latest report, on its activities in 2001, highlights arbitration and disputes resolution as a key component. Many construction contracts where contractors are working outside their home environment...
  • DTI calls on industry to participate in UK ENUM trial

    United Kingdom 10.09.2002
    The UK ENUM Group, set up following a workshop hosted by the DTI in September 2001, has unveiled plans to launch a UK trial of the new ENUM technology later this year: parties interested in participating...
  • UK Patents Review 2002

    United Kingdom 06.09.2002
    CMS Cameron McKenna's Technology Group has recently published its UK Patents Review 2002. In the Review, we comment upon the major Court decisions reported during the year 2001 by subject matter. We also...
  • Climate change jargon buster

    United Kingdom 05.09.2002
    The Kyoto Protocol, its international forebears and national offspring have created a unique vocabulary of their own. We have developed this jargon buster to help those new to the Kyoto mechanisms, UK...