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Elisabeth (Lisa) DeMarco, Patricia Finn Braddock, Anthony Hobley, Tom Luckock, Jeffrey Margulies; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 25, 2013, previously published on February 2013 President Obama’s Inaugural and State of the Union speeches put the issue of the United States Government’s approach to addressing climate change back on the political front burner. In his most recent speech, the President challenged Congress to take action on climate change, and issued...
| | Ontario Court Of Appeal Limits the Award of Premium Fees To Class Counsel
Sally A. Gomery, Jamie A. Macdonald; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 21, 2013, previously published on February 2013 In its recent decision in Lavier v MyTravel Canada Holidays Inc., the Ontario Court of Appeal denied plaintiffs’ counsel additional fees following the settlement of a class action. In doing so, the court provided guidelines on the award of class counsel fees and warned against fee awards...
| | Australian Court Approves Human Gene Patents
Louise Dumbrell, Kerin Forstmanis; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 21, 2013, previously published on February 2013 An Australian Court has, for the first time, had the opportunity to consider whether human genetic information (in the form of nucleic acids, ie DNA and RNA) can be patented under Australian law.
| | Deadline to File and Pay the Contribution Set Forth in Venezuela’s Organic Law on Narcotics
Fernando F. Fernández Barroso, Yoshian Zerpa; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 21, 2013, previously published on February 2013 In accordance with the provisions of article 32 of the Organic Law on Narcotics (LOD for its acronym in Spanish), businesses required to contribute to the National Anti-narcotics Fund must file a return and pay such contributions within 60 calendar days following the closing of the fiscal year.
| | Russian Law
Levon Kocharyan; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 21, 2013, previously published on February 2013 We would like to remind you that according to Article 34 of the Federal Law “On Limited Liability Companies”, every Limited Liability Company is obliged to hold a Regular (Annual) General Participants’ Meeting, in order, among other issues, to approve the results of the previous...
| | Bargaining Hard Is Not Always Bargaining In Bad Faith
Philippe Levac; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 19, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The Superior Court has reversed a Commission des relations du travail (CRT) ruling that the Government of Quebec had negotiated in bad faith in the 2003-2005 collective bargaining round with the public and parapublic sectors. The court justified its intervention on the grounds that the CRT had...
| | Inquiry into Construction Industry Insolvency in NSW - Final Report
Peter Anagnostou; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 18, 2013, previously published on February 2013 In August 2012 the NSW Government commissioned an Independent Inquiry into Construction Industry Insolvency. The Inquiry was asked to assess the causes and extent of insolvency in the building and construction industry and to recommend measures to better protect subcontractors from the effects of...
| | Venezuela Changes Official Exchange Rate and Incorporates New Items to Currency Exchange Control Regime
Luis Ernesto Andueza Galeno, Rubén Eduardo Luján; Despacho de Abogados miembros de Norton Rose, S.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 18, 2013, previously published on February 2013 In Official Gazette N° 40.108 dated February 8, 2013, a new Exchange Agreement N° 14, entered into between the Ministry of the People’s Power for Planning and Finance Matters (the Ministry of Finance) and the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), was published.
| | Revised Code of Banking Practice Is Now In Place
Phillip Kong; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 15, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The revised Code of Banking Practice (COBP) was released by the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) on 31 January 2013 together with a Code Compliance Monitoring Committee Mandate (CCMC Mandate). The revised COBP follows a review of the 2004 version of the COBP by an independent reviewer in...
| | PPP: Back on the Agenda in Thailand
Tassanai Kiratisountorn, Somboon Kitiyansub; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 15, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The Government of Thailand is on the verge of enacting new legislation governing Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) projects.
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