Month: September 2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Connecticut-based Revolution Lighting Technologies Inc. for an accounting fraud that falsely inflated its reported revenues over a four-year period. Four Revolution Lighting executives—CEO Robert… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-221

Thomas Schultz (King’s College London – Law) & Federico Ortino (King’s College London – Law) have published The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration (Oxford Univ. Press 2020). The table of contents is here. Here’s the abstract: This Handbook brings together many of the key scholars and leading practitioners in international arbitration, to present and examine…

The latest issue of the African Journal of International Criminal Justice (2020, no. 1) is out. Contents include: Fabrice Tambe Endoh, African Union and the Politics of Selective Prosecutions at the International Criminal Court Judicaël Elisée Tiehi, Le nouveau code de procédure pénale en Côte d’ivoire Aghem Hanson Ekori, The ICC or the ACC: Defining…

On October 22-23, 2020, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host virtually its 2020 WTO Conference. The program is here. Here’s the idea: This is a pivotal moment for trade affairs and a critical time to take stock and reflect on the future of global economic governance and connectivity. The conference will…

Catchwords: CORPORATIONS – scheme of arrangement – application for orders that if the Court makes an order convening a meeting of the plaintiff at the First Court Hearing, that meeting may be conducted as a virtual meeting Article source: https://jade.io/viewArticle.html?aid=767078&pid=-1&h=406995063

Catchwords: CORPORATIONS – application for declaratory relief under s 1322(4) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – where plaintiff inadvertently failed to lodge a cleansing notice in respect of shares issued Article source: https://jade.io/viewArticle.html?aid=767076&pid=-1&h=406995063

Catchwords: PROCEDURE – CIVIL PROCEEDINGS IN STATE AND TERRITORY COURTS – COSTS – GENERAL MATTERS PROCEDURE – CIVIL PROCEEDINGS IN STATE AND TERRITORY COURTS – COSTS – COSTS OUT OF FUND OR PROPERTY EQUITY – TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES – APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL AND ESTATE OF TRUSTEES https://jade.io/viewArticle.html?aid=767071&pid=-1&h=1502666671

Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – interim preservation – freezing orders – defendant a natural person resident in Australia – defendant lives in home owned by company (not a party) as trustee for family trust – company enters into contract for sale of home – freezing orders refused against defendant and company – costs – order for…