“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By Charles Kamau Wanguhu In the development of new legislation and regulations to keep pace with innovations and developments in a sector of the economy in whose interest are the regulations? Furthermore in keeping pace with innovation should regulation be geared to maintaining status quo or enabling new innovations? What are the opportunities for capture of regulatory authorities by
By: Ainsley Brown Christian Milton, a former vice-president of American International Group Inc. (AIG) was sentenced last week to 4 years for his part in a US $597 Million fraud scheme. The scheme which began in 2000 defrauded AIG shareholders by the aforesaid amount by allowing AIG to improve its balance sheet. Mr. Milton can count himself luck for
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By: Ainsley Brown Yes, that’s right, you read correctly: human rights cases are being brought by companies not against them. Well, at least this is the case in the UK, as a story in the Times explains. A new survey has revealed that while the overall human rights cases brought in 2008 is down over 2007, there has being an
By: Ainsley Brown The Indian Justice Minister, HR Bhardwaj, has told Bloomberg that the government is currently circulating draft regulations that will allow foreign law firms to set up shop in India. With growth rates averaging 9% over the past three years India is no doubt an attractive place to invest for any business – law firms included.
By: Ainsley Brown Trinidad Cement Limited vs. The State of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on January 15, 2009 made its first ruling as to its own original jurisdiction. The CCJ has Appellate jurisdiction over Civil and Criminal cases referred to it from common law member states. It also has original jurisdiction as to
Today is budget day in Canada. While every budget is important this one holds significant for two main reasons: 1. it will or ought to contain Canada’s (Conservative government of Canada’s) economic stimulus plan. It will/ought to contain items on infrastructure; the environment; and tax cuts just to name a few. 2. it could have political consequences with the minority
by Ainsley Brown The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed that it has found avian flu on a turkey farm in British Columbia. The strain of the virus, H5, is a type that doesn’t spread easily and rarely infects humans. Just as in the last outbreak in 2005 in this part of the country all of the birds will
The numbers are out from the Office for National Statistics and they are not pretty: the UK economy shrank by 1.5% in the last three months of 2008. This contraction was worse than expected and is even deeper than the last recession of the early 90’s. In fact it was the biggest fall in more than 28 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Ah! The beautiful island of Mauritius……..Ah! It is January and for many in the northern hemisphere winter has fully excreted its cold, snowy and unyielding grip. This is the time when the winter blues set completely set in. It is when we daydream, drift off and wish for sunnier and warmer climes. Ah! The beautiful island of Mauritius, a green