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Dentons Kensington Swan – How privacy law underpins New Zealand’s contact tracing regime

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In the past two weeks, Aotearoa has experienced its first ‘resurgence’ of COVID-19 in the community, following a 102-day period without community transmission. Whether or not this latest outbreak was inevitable and/or whether future outbreaks are also likely to ‘pop up’ from time-to-time as the world continues its battle to contain COVID-19 can remain the […]

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Nine Things You Need to Know About the Trump Administration Sanctions Against TikTok and WeChat

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By Scott Flicker, Behnam Dayanim, Haiyan Tang,Quinn Dang,Derek Turnbull & Talya Hutchison On Thursday, August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration took long-rumored action against the popular social media apps, TikTok and WeChat, in the forms of two executive orders. The orders largely prohibit persons or property subject to U.S. jurisdiction from transactions with the China-based owners of the apps, escalating tensions

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Coronavirus – Furlough bonus scheme and redundancy pay announcements

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Eversheds Sutherland – The government has published further details of the £1,000 employer bonus for every furloughed employee who remains employed until the end of January 2021. It has also implemented legislation to ensure that furloughed employees receive statutory redundancy pay, and some other statutory entitlements, based on their normal wages, rather than any reduced

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5 Questions to Ask Your Bankruptcy Attorney Before You Hire Them

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Problems created by the current pandemic are pushing up bankruptcies and the legal questions that arise as a result are matters of increasing importance for those affected by financial hardship. As has been recently reported in the New York Times, the ‘Great Lockdown’ has seen the United States with the highest household debt in history,

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What is the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor?

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Many individuals who have been arrested, particularly if it’s for a first offense, wonder what the difference between a misdemeanor charge and a felony charge. Simply put, a felony charge is more serious than a misdemeanor, although that is something of an oversimplification. The US federal government generally considers a crime punishable with incarceration for

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