On 1 June 2009, amendments to Hungary's Competition Act came into force. Some of the amended Competition Act's most interesting changes are the provisions on private enforcement.

It remains to be seen how far the law can protect employers’ business interests from exploitation by ex-employees using social media.

In his Pre-Budget Report (PBR) published on 9 October 2007 the Chancellor of the Exchequer outlined plans for the Government to toughen up its stance on so-called ‘non-doms’, i.e. those people who whilst resident in the UK declare that they are domiciled abroad, thereby putting themselves largely beyond the scope of UK tax regulations.

At the Toronto Centre Canada Revenue Agency & Professionals Breakfast Seminar on February 18, 2014, the CRA provided an update on international and transfer pricing audits.

The global recession has put great pressure on revenue authorities worldwide. China is no exception. Recently China’s State Administration of Taxation (“SAT”) issued a number of circulars to strengthen the protection of tax revenues.

The UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA") implemented the EC Data Protection Directive.

The Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") recently released OSC Notice 45-712 – Progress Report on Review of Prospectus Exemptions to Facilitate Capital Raising (the "Progress Report"), which identifies four capital raising prospectus exemptions the OSC will consider with respect to further work: (i) crowdfunding; (ii) friends, family and business associates; (iii) offering memorandum, and (iv) exemption based on a reporting issuer’s continuous disclosure and existing security holder base.

In this presentation Dentons' Heather Barnhouse and Alex Ragan describe letters of intent/memoranda of understanding and confidentiality agreements in the context of business relationships.

Nacho Nyak Dun, theTr’ondek Hwech’in (two First Nations), the Canadian Park sand Wilderness Society and the Yukon Conservation Society are suing the Yukon government over the land use plan for the Peel River watershed on the basis that it violates land claims agreements signed by the First Nations.

Many start-ups use equity to compensate key employees and to fund early stage activities.

Last fall the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 was amended to index increases to the minimum wage to Ontario’s Consumer Price Index.

When considering the purchase of a piece of commercial property, there are many employment and labour-related issues which may arise where the purchaser intends, after closing, to continue operating the business of the vendor, or to operate a similar business

As we reported in a previous blog post that can be found here, the Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act, 2014 makes some significant changes to several Ontario statutes.

BCAMTA opened its office in Terrace to guide and support aboriginal people towards gaining employment in the mining and exploration industry.

The Yukon government has increased its Yukon mineral exploration program by $630,000 for the coming field season.

The Northern Plan will focus on the integrated and coherent development of the area covered by the Northern Plan which includes all of Québec located north of the 49th degree.

In efforts to meet Canada's G-20 commitments related to OTC derivatives market reform, the Bank of Canada, the Canadian Securities Administrators and various provincial securities commissions have set out their proposals and views related to OTC derivative market reform and regulation.

This presentation was delivered by Chantal Bernier on December 10, 2014 for the North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce.

The mineral exploration tax credit has been extended for a further one-year period.

On October 23rd, the member firms of Dentons will host a Global TMT Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley, CA.