KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani s Speech on the Announcement of Kurdistan Investment Law (Kurdish Media)
KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani s Speech on the Announcement of Kurdistan Investment Law (Kurdish Media)
London (KurdishMedia.com) 30 July 2006: This morning in Hewler (Erbil), Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani announced a new investment law for the region aimed at promoting international investment and economic activity in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Business Essentials: ‘You can be ageist and not know it. How do we avoid breaking the law?’ (Independent)
After 1 October this year, any job advertisement suggesting that someone of a particular age would be well suited to the post will be breaking the law. Under the new Employment Equality (Age) Regulations, all areas of the employment cycle - recruitment, training and development, promotion, redundancy and retirement - must be completely age-neutral. For Hewitson Walker, a financial recruitment
Court to decide on lesbian couple (BBC News)
A lesbian couple await a High Court ruling on whether their marriage can be given full legal status in the UK.
International legal group urges halt to Bahrain’s anti-terror law (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
An international group of legal experts have urged Bahrain’s king to block a tough new law aimed at combatting terrorism.
Music pirate pays $100m to go legal (Times Online)
THE music industry hailed a victory in the battle against illegal downloading yesterday after forcing one of the world s most prominent file-sharing sites to pay $100 million in damages and become a legal business.
Corporate/ Company Law (Mondaq)
This week, a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice’s “encouragement” of firms to cooperate in the investigation of their employees cannot include forcing those corporations to cut off their employees’ legal fees.