Search Results for: International law

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COALITION of major business groups has filed an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court, calling on it to “clarify” the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which they claim is being abused by special interest groups.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH American Tobacco in South Africa is holding private parties for established consumers to market their cigarette brands, after a ban on the advertising, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco was imposed in 2001. BAT, which holds about 95 per cent of the South African market, said the aim of the parties was to switch users to upscale brands rather than encourage non-smokers to take up the habit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMBINED investment of around Euro 50 million in United Utilities Europe (UUE) by the United Utilities group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will allow the subsidiary to increase its ownership of three eastern European water and wastewater companies.…

BY RICHARD HURST
IF there is one area of the world where a zealous anti-money laundering practitioner descend into the pits of despair, it would surely be west Africa, where there are a comprehensive lack of effective controls over the flow of money in and out of the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has warned that atypical cases of BSE and scrapie have been discovered in France and specialists are conducting follow-up studies. The six unusual BSE cases and three scrapie cases were discovered around the country during routine checks by the French Agency for Food Safety.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Parliament has voted to overrule the European Commission and make deliberate pollution of the sea a criminal offence. MEPs said fines, as proposed by the Commission, were not enough to deter ships’ captains from repeatedly dumping waste.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
1. THE stage has been set for one of the fiercest internal EU legal battles in recent years following a decision by the European Commission to take the Union’s member states to court over their refusal to punish France and Germany for breaching the euro zone rules last November.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE the political rhetoric that labels it "jackpot justice", the average US class-action award has been holding steady, says a recent study by two law school professors. Cornell University’s Theodore Eisenberg and the University of New York’s Geoffrey P.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$10 million to Société Concessionnaire de l’Aéroport to expand Cambodia’s Phnom Penh and the Siem Reap-Angkor international airports. The company holds a 25-year concession from the Cambodian government to operate these terminals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, are continuing investigations into apparently unlinked outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan to establish whether or not they are new strains of the disease.…