The Customs Code of Kazakhstan provides the possibility for every brand owner to enter his trademark in the Customs Register, provided that the trademark was duly registered with the National Institute of Intellectual Property.

MWP believes that the Central Asian and Caucasus legal markets are ripe for the expansion of its disputes practice.

Kazakhstan is planning to refer the new Subsoil Code for consideration to the Parliament in late 2017, according to the Minister for Investments and Development of Kazakhstan.

Residents and non-residents may take out of the Republic of Azerbaijan up to US$10,000 equivalent foreign currency in cash upon oral declaration at the customs authorities.

By the Decree of the President of Kazakhstan, dated 19 May 2015, a new financial centre, called the Astana International Financial Centre ("AIFC"), was created in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana.

On 27 June 2016, the Acting Minister of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan approved a Rules and Conditions for the Issuance and (or) Prolongation of Permits to Foreign Workers for Employment.

Arbitration has historically been a popular method of resolving insurance and reinsurance disputes.

In a judgment that undertakes an in depth analysis of the law on the confidential and private nature of arbitration, the Court of Appeal has extended an exception to the general principle of confidentiality in arbitration by concluding that disclosure of arbitration materials in the interests of justice is not limited to the interests of justice in England.

The High Court will soon provide some much-needed clarity about the status of foreign arbitral awards in Australia, as Sid Wang and James Robinson explain.

High Court grants Michael Wilson and Partners leave to appeal

In Halliwel Asset Inc and Panikos Symeou and Marigold Trust Company Limited-v-Hornbeam Corporation, Vadim Shulam (Respondent) Claim No BVIHCMAP 2015/0001, a "non-party" Mr Shulman was a resident of Monaco.

Indeed, a client may well spend a considerable amount more pursuing the debt than they are even likely to recover.

There is no automatic bar to maintaining proceedings merely because an arbitration is on between some related parties.

Arbitration- Not a one-man show?

What order a court should make following a breach of a freezing order/third party interests.

The main issue in this case is whether the recast Regulation (Regulation 1215/2012) applies to jurisdictional issues where the competing jurisdictions are within the UK.

There have been a series of costs decisions in the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") that had created a degree of uncertainty about the recovery of foreign lawyers' fees.

On 14 July 2020 the High Court (Miles J) handed down the latest judgment in the long-running Zumax v First City Monument Bank litigation - granting an "unless order"...

The contract of marriage which binds two people together is a joyous occasion warranting the celebration of the community.

A recent judgment handed down by the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has potentially undermined the ability of lawyers to work on matters before the BVI courts and recover their fees for such work.