The High Court of Australia today handed down an important, unanimous judgment on legal professional privilege.

An arbitration agreement is generally perceived as an agreement to submit to arbitration any disputes that may arise under the contract containing such a clause

Filing season for corporate income tax returns is coming to a close in Belgium. The deadline for resident and non-resident companies (FY 2018)

The new PRC Encryption Law will come into force on 1 January 2020. It will bring fundamental changes to the sale, import and use of encryption technologies in China by foreign and domestic ...

17/10/2019: The European Banking Authority (EBA) published an Opinion on the deadline for the migration to strong customer authentication (SCA) under Directive ...

Loans are defined as non-performing when the borrower is unable to make scheduled payments for more than 90 days past the due date or when the loan is assessed as unlikely to be repaid.

Our Hong Kong Employment team have prepared a one-page infographic summarising the key employment and HR issues arising out of the Hong Kong protests.

The ministerial decree of 19 April 2019 establishing a new template for foreign employment contracts allows foreign employees to be treated in the same way as Moroccan employees.

On 1 January 2020 amendments to the Federal Law "On the Securities Market" (SM Law) specifying the procedure for depositing securities under an escrow agreement entered into force.

SAGIA, MoCI, sports and tourism authorities and other entities reformed as ministries, human resources and social development consolidated.

In our earlier Tax Alert, we reported that the Spanish Directorate General of Taxes had published a draft resolution that provides guidelines to determine whether a foreign entity is to be regarded...

On 11 December 2019, the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine (on the harmonization of legislation with the law of the European Union

On 11 December 2019, the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine (on the harmonization of legislation with the law of the European Union in the field of comparative...

Last year a joint venture between friends was held to be subject to an implied duty of good faith. This duty, said the High Court, required the parties to work with greater mutual trust...

People from different socioeconomic backgrounds often face multiple barriers to a career in law. This contributes to a lack of genuine socioeconomic diversity in the legal profession.

In this edition of Pensions Round-Up we look at key developments in pensions legislation, case law and regulatory guidance from July 2019 including:

In a rare pro-employer decision, on September 12, 2019 the California Supreme Court decided in ZB, N.A. v. Superior Court that Private Attorney General Act (PAGA)

Days before the Huawei Temporary General License (TGL) was set to expire, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has extended it for the third time.

An oversight hearing to look into the national security implications of facial recognition technology previously scheduled for the week of December 16 has been postponed until next year.

There has been a lot of commentary recently about whistleblowers and the proposed amendments to the Protected Disclosures Act 2000,