MPs today adopted amendments to the Law on the National Bank of Serbia (NBS), under which the NBS governor will be appointed by the Serbian president. Parliament will confirm the president’s nominee by majority vote, appointing the governor to a six year term which can be renewed. He will be at the head of the NBS and will represent the institution.
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Law on electronic communication adopted
June 29th, 2010 |
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The Serbian parliament on Tuesday in Belgrade adopted the controversial new Law on Electronic Communication. The state ombudsman and several opposition parties warned that the new law enables the state to look at private communication between citizens without a court order.
The growth of legal outsourcing: Passage to India
June 24th, 2010 |
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Companies and law firms are turning to India for cut-price legal services
RITU SOLANKI, a 28-year-old lawyer with a degree from Nottingham University, spends most of her time drafting contracts and legal memos for a telecoms firm in Britain. She, however, is in Gurgaon, a high-rise satellite city on Delhi’s edge, where she works for CPA Global, a legal-outsourcing company. A lawyer with similar experience at a London law firm might charge up to $400 an hour for the sort of work Ms Solanki does; her labour costs around $50 an hour. As law firms and corporate legal departments face mounting pressure to cut costs, an increasing number are choosing the Indian option.
Last year, Rio Tinto, an international mining group, moved a tranche of legal work to Indian lawyers at CPA Global, which has its headquarters in Jersey, to save a fifth of its legal costs. Others are following. In May CMS Cameron McKenna, a British law firm, signed the legal industry’s biggest outsourcing deal with Integreon, an American company with operations in India. Over the next ten years, Integreon’s Indian staff will provide the British firm with services from human resources to legal research. …
Parliament finishes debate on NBS law
June 24th, 2010 |
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The Serbian parliament finished the discussion on the amendments to the Law on the National Bank of Serbia (NBS)on Wednesday. MPs covered all the items on the agenda of the second extraordinary session which will be put up for a vote on June 29.
Adelson ready to settle casino dispute With law group: Update
June 23rd, 2010 |
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Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson said his Singapore casino is ready to settle “any day they want” with the lawyers’ group that accused it of using their conference to hasten its gaming license.
“We much rather make love than war,” Adelson said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We tried to settle with them; they didn’t want to and were quite unreasonable.”
Adelson ready to settle with ‘unreasonable’ Singapore law group
June 23rd, 2010 |
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Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson said his Singapore casino is ready to settle “any day they want” with the lawyers group that accused it of using their conference to hasten its gaming license.
“We much rather make love than war,” Adelson said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We tried to settle with them, they didn’t want to and were quite unreasonable.”
Perez Hilton Violates Law
June 22nd, 2010 |
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Scandalous pictures were taken of the 17-year-old singer, Miley Cyrus, which showed her without any underwear while she was getting out of her car. Perez Hilton posted those nude photos on her website and in such a way broke the law as Miley is still underage. Even though the whole world knows Hilton as the [...]
Ombudsman in warning over electronic communications law
June 17th, 2010 |
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Citizens Ombudsman SaÅ¡a Janković has warned that if the new Law on Electronic Communication is adopted, the citizens’ right to privacy may be compromised. Janković spoke for B92 Radio in Belgrade on Thursday to say that there was previously an “agreement with security services†to gradually move toward better protection of civil rights in the country, while the draft law that is currently in parliamentary procedure represents “a step backâ€.
San Francisco Expected to Pass Cell Phone Radiation Law
June 17th, 2010 |
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San Franciscos Board of Supervisors has stated its approval for a bill proposing that retailers clearly display the levels of radiation emitted by each cell phone they sell. While the link between brain cancers and cell phone use is considered inconclusive, some studies suggest otherwise. – Do cell phones cause brain tumors? Scientific evidence on the matter
is considered inconclusive, but residents of San Francisco are saying
theyd nonetheless like to be able to make more informed, and
potentially safer, cell phone shopping decisions.
On June 16, the San Francisco Board of Supe…
San Francisco shops to display phone radiation
June 17th, 2010 |
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In a first of its kind of law, San Francisco has made it a mandatory for the shops to display the amount radiation each mobile phone is capable of emitting. This is despite the fact that no scientific study has so far concluded that thee mobile phones are dangerous. The move to display the amount [...]
MPs debate amendments to NBS law
June 11th, 2010 |
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Parliament is continuing its discussion of the draft law for changes and additions to be made to the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) law. The changes would call for the NBS governor to be elected by parliament on a proposal submitted by the president, not that coming from the Parliamentary Finance Committee.
“Amendments not sumbitted” to controversial law
June 10th, 2010 |
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Ruling coalition MP group chief Nada Kolundžija says Ombudsman SaÅ¡a Janković did not submit any amendments to a controversial draft law. The legislation that aims to regulate electronic communication is currently in parliamentary procedure and has drawn criticism for the powers would give Serbia’s Security-Information Agency (BIA).
“Amendments not sumbitted” to controversial law
June 10th, 2010 |
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Ruling coalition MP group chief Nada Kolundžija says Ombudsman SaÅ¡a Janković did not submit any amendments to a controversial draft law. The legislation that aims to regulate electronic communication is currently in parliamentary procedure and has drawn criticism for the powers would give Serbia’s Security-Information Agency (BIA).
Marina Bay Sands sued for law conference mishaps, threats
June 9th, 2010 |
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Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s Singapore casino resort was sued by the organisers of the first conference it hosted for misrepresenting a “complete disaster” as a world-class venue and for imposing duress, fear and force.
IPBA 2010 Pte is asking the Singapore High Court to assess damages for misrepresentation, breach of agreement and Marina Bay Sands Pte’s conduct, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.
Ombudsman, BIA wrangle over law
June 9th, 2010 |
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Ombudsman SaÅ¡a Janković on Tuesday submitted amendments to the draft law on electronic communications to the Serbian parliament. The controversial bill is currently in parliamentary procedure, and if adopted, would give the Security-Information Agency (BIA) unlimited access to data concerning participants, date, duration and location of citizens’ telephone and email communications.
Kosovo PM: No one is above law in Kosovo
June 6th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said that no one is above the law and that all cases of corruption in the Kosovo institutions would be investigated. “I and the government I lead will be in the first line in the fight against corruption and organized crime in Kosovo. We will offer help to EULEX in this matter,†Thaci said.
Slovakia: Law to strip ethnic Hungarians of citizenship
June 1st, 2010 |
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Slovakia has approved legislation which will allow the authorities to strip citizenship from Slovaks who become Hungarian citizens. In a tit-for tat move against Hungary, the Slovak President Ivan GaÅ¡paroviÄ on Monday signed into law legislation to allow stripping ethnic Hungarians living in the country of their Slovak citizenship, if they take on additional Hungarian citizenship.
NBS law enters parliament procedure
May 31st, 2010 |
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The amendments to the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) law have entered the parliament procedure, Speaker Slavica Äukić-Dejanović has said. The changes, if adopted by MPs would allow parliament to appoint the central bank governor, while the candidate would be named by the president.
Hungary: Controversial citizenship law
May 27th, 2010 |
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The Hungarian parliament has adopted a law which makes it easier for ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries to get dual citizenship. 344 MPs voted for the law, three were against and five abstained from the vote.