This article sets out a summary of some of the key, recent court cases relating to institutional financial services, looks at some of the themes emerging and gives a view on the outlook for disputes in the sector.
Streaming video recently overtook peer-to-peer networks to become the largest single category of internet traffic, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index.1 This is a key reason why global internet traffic has increased eightfold over the past five years.2 With expected further dramatic increases in data traffic (Cisco estimates that internet traffic will increase fourfold over …
On 1 May 2011, long-debated amendments to law no 53/2003 (the labour code) finally entered into force in Romania. At the same time, a significant number of laws and secondary legislation were repealed and replaced by the new law no 62/2011 when social dialogue was effected mid-May 2011 (the social dialogue law).
In early June the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee published a report called ‘The Work of the UK Border Agency (November 2010 – March 2011)’, which accuses the UK Border Agency (UKBA) of effectively creating an amnesty for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers whose cases have been delayed for many years.
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), drafted in the immediate wake of the Second World War as a bulwark against the resurgence of fascism and the spread of Stalinism, guarantees certain fundamental human rights. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which adjudicates on ECHR, offered first signatory states, then, in the mid-1970s, individual …
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