The highly controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is a monumental failure for the public purse and a "windfall of corporate welfare for compliance industries," warns Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group and Co-Founder of the Campaign to Repeal FATCA. Citing research from William Byrnes, a law professor at Texas A&M, Mr. Green debunks the IRS claim […]
According to a recent survey of midcap UK companies 65% of professional service firms are moving forward with their Brexit plans now Article 50 has been announced - leaving other industries trailing in their wake with an average of only 53% of firms across other industry sectors now engaged with planning. The survey, sponsored by The […]
Following the announcement of the SFO's deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Tesco a few weeks back, international business & law journalist Dominic Carman here discusses for Lawyer Monthly whether DPAs are truly in the interest of justice.
As the UK’s new Apprenticeship Levy came into force last week, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, reveals to Lawyer Monthly she is sceptical that firms will have the motivation to overcome the bureaucratic and cultural hurdles required to make new apprentices a staple of the white-collar workforce in the […]
A new school which aims to combat child prostitution by teaching the victims law opens its doors last week in a world first. The School for Justice in India will take underage girls out of the country’s brothels and train them to be lawyers and prosecutors with the power to ensure the criminals who force […]
Last week the UK saw the enforcement of a 28-day limit on police bail. This comes after criticism of scenarios where people have been kept on police bail for months, and in cases even years, without charge during investigations, essentially in a legal limbo. There is still the flexibility of an extension up to three […]
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in association with Stanford University, US, hosted 'Law of Democracy - India Field Study', a joint exercise offering an exciting exploration of the legal, political and social constructions of the Indian and American democracies from 26th March - April 1st 2017. The programme was conducted under the auspices of the Centre for […]
As the UK’s Gender Pay Gap reporting legislation recently came into force, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, explains to Lawyer Monthly the potential effectiveness of the new rules and the implementation thereof. Whilst the gender pay gap will rightly shine a light on gender pay, the incoming regulations leave a lot […]
The UK Supreme Court recently ruled that civil service employees do not have to show the reason why they were disadvantaged to progress their claims of indirect discrimination against their employer, the Home Office. This decision overturned the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal in June 2015. The landmark case, brought by Thompsons on […]
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