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The small beautiful African country of Malawi said to legalise forex black market traders
August 25th, 2016
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has said it will formalise traders selling foreign currency outside the official exchange rate, following pronouncements made by Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) director Atuweni Juwayeyi Agbermodji that parallel foreign exchange traders need to ...
International law firm announced association in Saudi Arabia
August 24th, 2016
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance today announced that it has entered into an association with the newly established Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm (AS&H) in Saudi Arabia. The association will commence operations later this year. It will replace ...
International Law Firm to accept payment in Bitcoin
August 17th, 2016
The Washington DC-headquartered firm, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, announced last week that it will accept payment in the digital currency known as Bitcoin. Alan Cohn, an of counsel at the firm and former assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland ...
Consumers Likely to Hire Lawyers Who Are Active on Social Media, Says New FindLaw Survey
August 16th, 2016
As social media increasingly becomes part of people’s daily lives, a majority of consumers say it plays a major role in deciding which attorney to hire, according to new survey from FindLaw. A majority of consumers say they would ...
Public Interest Lawyers to close down
August 16th, 2016
Theresa May said to be pleased at closure of Public Interest Lawyers, which submitted allegations of unlawful killing The government has said it is planning a clampdown on legal firms pursuing what it calls “spurious claims” against military personnel ...
Why Say’s law is always true
August 12th, 2016
One of my regular readers has raised the important subject of Say’s law, the denial of which both Keynesian and modern monetarists are emphatic. They need this fundamental axiom to be untrue to justify state stimulation of aggregate demand. ...
The EU has helped to shape UK copyright law for journalists, but Brexit unlikely to cause significant changes
August 11th, 2016
Now that that dust has settled after the EU referendum, it’s worth looking at how Brexit will affect media law. Nothing is certain yet, but it is possible to make some informed predictions. I will be examining the likely ...
‘Euro was flawed at birth and destined to collapse’ – Nobel economist
August 10th, 2016
The decision to create a single currency without the institutions which would make it work was “fatal” for the eurozone, said Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, adding that the “eurozone must ditch it now to survive.” In his book ...
Australia to regulate bitcoin under counter-terrorism finance laws
August 9th, 2016
Jakarta: Australia is moving to become one of the first countries to regulate e-currencies such as bitcoin under its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. Bitcoin – the most prominent digital currency to emerge globally – is backed by a ...
PwC must face MF Global lawsuit over accounting advice
August 8th, 2016
A US Judge has given the go-ahead for a $1bn lawsuit against PwC over claims the firm provided bad accounting advice which contributed to the 2011 collapse of MF Global. MF Global and its parent company, MF Global Holdings Ltd, collapsed ...