Month: September 2020

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 36, no. 3, September 2020) is out. Contents include: Articles Luuk Uilenbroek, The power of investment tribunals to enjoin domestic criminal proceedings Richard Garnett, Anti-arbitration injunctions: walking the tightrope Tolu O Obamuroh, Jurisdiction and admissibility: a case study Case Notes Hetal Doshi & Sankalp Udgata, Anti-arbitration injunction by…

Sylvia Maus has published United Nations Peace Operations and Human Rights: Normativity and Compliance (Brill | Nijhoff 2020). Here’s the abstract: In United Nations Peace Operations and Human Rights: Normativity and Compliance Sylvia Maus offers a comprehensive account of the human rights obligations of United Nations peace operations with a dual focus on the applicability…

Agnė Makris has published Verwalten in »Modernen Protektoraten«: Rechtmäßigkeitsanforderungen an EU-Verwaltungsmissionen am Beispiel der EULEX-Mission im Kosovo (Mohr Siebeck 2020). Here’s the abstract: Die Rechtsstaatlichkeitsmission der Europäischen Union im Kosovo, die sog. EULEX-Mission, ist ein Beispiel der Ausübung von Hoheitsgewalt durch die EU außerhalb ihrer Grenzen. Agnė Makris untersucht die Mission aus völker-, europa- und…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt amendments to modernize its shareholder proposal rule, which governs the process for a shareholder to have its proposal included in a company’s proxy statement for consideration by all of the… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-220

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt amendments to the rules governing its whistleblower program that are designed to provide greater clarity to whistleblowers and increase the program’s efficiency and transparency. … Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-219

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief to halt a series of microcap market manipulation schemes that defrauded retail investors.  According to the SEC’s complaint, from… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-218

Huge controversy has already been generated over provisions in the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill granting Ministers the power to disapply the Withdrawal Agreement.  Most of the debate (Elliott,  Armstrong) has been focused on the potential breaches of international law. This could severely damage the reputation of the United Kingdom in the world.  However, what…

Catchwords: CORPORATIONS – External administration – Application by former liquidator for approval of remuneration – Voluntary winding up – Insolvency Practice Schedule (Schedule 2 to the Corporations Act (2001) (Cth)) applies – Remuneration approved – IMO Traditional Values Management Limited (in liq) [2012] VSC 650 – In the matter of Sakr Nominees Pty Limited [2017]…

Catchwords: EQUITY – trusts and trustees – resulting trusts – purchase money trusts – where de facto partners purchased commercial property as tenants in common in equal shares – whether presumption of resulting trust rebutted – where contemporaneous deed evidencing actual intention of parties to hold property beneficially in equal shares – appropriate division of…