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Germany update: Occupational health and safety in times of the corona virus – The employer’s duty of care
The effects of the corona pandemic remain omnipresent and continue to determine not only our daily lives, but especially our working lives. The employer in particular is constantly faced with...
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Canada Update: Lessons in evidence, procedure and natural justice from the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal
On June 4, 2021, the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal (“FMAT”) rendered a judgment on the merits in Autorité des marchés financiers c. Hudson, 2021 QCTMF 33. The FMAT was asked to rule on...
read morePharmaceutical Data Exclusivity in Southeast Asia
Developing and launching a new drug on a commercial scale requires an enormous amount of time and investment in research and development (R&D), including pre-clinical testing and clinical trials. When...
read moreThai Customs Department Temporarily Eases Restrictions on Requesting Stay of Duty Payments
Sensitive to the difficulties many business entities and individuals are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Thai Customs Department recently implemented an important measure providing importers and exporters with the...
read moreNigeria Update: Ride-Hailing Companies – The Evolving Landscape of Legal Liabilities.
Ride-Hailing Companies (RHC) have become an almost indispensable part of the transport sector in most economies. Over the years, the likes of Uber, Lyft, Bolt ( Taxify), Cabify or Bird,...
read moreMalaysia Update: Regulatory Update: Directors’ Independence of Public Listed Companies
Directors’ independence has been a key focus of the Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”) and Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa”) lately as can be seen from the following amendments and proposed...
read moreColombia Update: Integral modification to the regulation of the PTEE established by the Superintendence of Companies
he PTEE is to prevent risks regarding international bribery and corruption with respect to employees, contractors, managers and associates of a company. The companies obliged to adopt a PTEE as...
read moreItaly Update: Unfair lending
Civil Cassation, sec. I, June 30, 2021, n. 18610. Pres. Genoese. East. Nazzicone With the judgment in comment, the Court of Cassation has specified that the abusive granting of credit...
read moreSwitzerland Update: Misuse of social media by employees
Disinformation and hate speech on social media is increasingly becoming a social problem. But what should be done when employees jeopardise the employer's reputation with their behaviour on social media?...
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