“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Ainsley Brown Listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) could become a much quicker process in 2011 if several of the leading investment banks in the UK follow through with their plans. It currently takes five weeks generally to go from a company announcing its intention to list to it being placed on the LSE – the banks
By: Ainsley Brown Talk about kicking off the New Year with a bang: it is official as of January 1, 2011 Australia now has its first national Consumer Law. The new law ushers in a comprehensive national consumer protection regime that mandates quick remedies – repair, replace, refund – to customer complaints. It replaces a patchwork of 20 national, State
By Emma Peart Recently a bill named the Daylight Saving Bill has passed through the initial stages of Government voting. The bill effectively suggests the changing of time within the UK away from Greenwich Mean Time(GMT). The proposal is to change to Continental time, whereby in the spring the UK would have GMT plus two hours – also known as
By Emma Peart A new deal has been announced that could open up the intellectual property market. The European Patent Office has announced that it is arranging a deal that will ease the translation of Patents. Part of the well known Google name consists of an on-line translation service named “Google Translate”. Perhaps spotting the potential benefits to protecting intellectual
By: Ainsley Brown Are you an entrepreneur? Are you British? Do you have the resources to commercialize patented materials? If you answered yes to the above questions then the University of Glasgow wants to talk to you. In a move that could spur innovation in the UK through the development and increased use of collaborative ecosystems between universities and enterprise,
By: Emma Peart China has recently offered more protection through Patents. It has offered protection in Patents since 1985 but has recently began to take the issue more seriously. China’s new legislation in relation to Patent Law came into force on 1st October 2009 with corresponding implementing regulations issued in February 2010. This can only be seen as a good thing
By: Ainsley Brown The global down turn it could be argued came as a blessing in disguise for the Islamic banking and finance sector (IBF). But may not for reason you might think. The decline in western banking and finance, while it led to many opportunities for the expansion of IBF, actually saw a decline in growth. This decline though
By Charles Wanguhu The Alien Tort Claims Act was adopted in 1789 as part of the original Judiciary Act. The Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) allows foreign victims of human rights abuses to sue perpetrators in United States courts. In a recent development in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell, the the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected outright
By: Emma Peart This October will see a plan to modify the Intellectual Property Law of Jersey to bring it screaming into the 21st Century with a suggested overview of its Intellectual Property Law which has not been updated for 100 years. The main problem for Jersey with no revision to its law in this area for so long is
By: Ainsley Brown According to the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), as conducted by the think tank Z/Yen Group, London and New York City (NYC) remain number one and two respectively as the top financial centres. However, Hong Kong (HK) is closing the gap and is in a respectable third. The twice yearly index ranks 75 cities based on