Two decades after its creation, is the Supreme Court hearing the right cases and meeting its statutory objectives? Before the Supreme Court’s establishment in 2004, New Zealand’s highest court of appeal was the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. Sitting more than 18,000 kilometres away, it heard less than ten appeals annually. This
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced that it will offer assistance to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) under its Critical Response program — part of the office’s Collaborative Reform Initiative. Through this assistance, the COPS Office — in conjunction with the National Policing Institute (a Critical Response
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that 56 of its lawyers globally will be promoted to partner, effective January 1, 2025. The new partner class includes lawyers from 13 practice areas: litigation and disputes (18); corporate, M&A and securities (12); banking and finance (9); employment and labor (3); public finance (3); antitrust and
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Human rights lawyers have warned that advances in neurotechnology, a science which connects people’s nervous system with electronic devices, could change what it means to be responsible for our own actions, as leaders in the field met with academics and legal professionals in London. Concerns about autonomy, privacy of personal information and potential discrimination were
LOS ANGELES – The Justice Department today filed a settlement agreement reached between the parties in the civil forfeiture case involving Backpage.com, a now-shuttered internet forum for prostitution ads that included ads depicting sex work of children, in which $215 million in assets traceable to Backpage’s profits, and previously seized by the government from Backpage and
2 Defendants Charged in U.S. Courts as Part of Global Crackdown on ‘Booter’ Services Offering Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Officials Seized 27 Internet Domains that Offered DDoS-for-Hire Services LOS ANGELES – The Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 27 internet domains associated with some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges
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The U.S. Government recently issued final regulations on restricted outbound investments (a.k.a. “Reverse CFIUS”), 31 CFR Part 850, which will go into effect January 2, 2025. On December 9, 2024, we attended the 2024 Outbound Investment Security Conference in Washington, D.C., where representatives from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Department of Commerce, and State
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Slater and Gordon has filed a class action on behalf of millions of customers related to the pricing of NRMA home and/or contents insurance policies issued by Insurance Australia Limited (IAL), as part of the ‘Get your Insurance Back’ campaign. The statement of claim, filed in the Victorian Supreme Court, accuses IAL, under parent company Insurance
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We are pleased to announce the arrival of Sapna Jhangiani KC, a leading international commercial disputes specialist based in Singapore. The first female lawyer in Singapore to be appointed as a silk in England, Sapna has substantial advocacy experience in both litigation and arbitration. Formerly a partner at Clyde & Co, practising in Dubai and
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The failure of law firm Axiom Ince shocked the UK law profession, but it hasn’t prevented Pragnesh Modhwadia, the former firm boss, dining out expensively despite being accused of draining £66 million from his firm’s client accounts. Pragnesh Modhwadia, the former boss of Axiom Ince, finds himself at the center of a complex legal and
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