The use of arbitration is, to a considerable extent, driven by the emergence of the UAE as the regional business hub of the Middle East. Given the cultural differences between the Middle East and the Western world, the best bet is to resolve disputes arising between parties from these two parts of the world by …
The current recession has brought about significant changes in the UK financial services sector, ranging from a hardening of the public’s attitude towards financial institutions to the partial nationalisation of two of the largest banks in the world (at a cost of billions of pounds). The UK’s first coalition government for 70 years is making …
There have been two very interesting appeal court decisions recently arising out of the same incident of an engine room fire on board the vessel ‘MV Far Service’ (the vessel) in July 2002. The first stems from the Scots court proceedings raised by Farstad Supply AS (Farstad), the owners of the vessel against contractors Enviroco …
International structures as used by multinational companies may typically include limited partnerships or general partnerships. If the Netherlands is involved in international structures, the partnerships may be set up in such a way that they qualify as transparent for Dutch tax purposes. Further, partnerships could be used to manage the recognition of taxable income (for …
There have been several recent cases and developments in the law of defamation that have affected the realm of permissible comment and opinion in publications, whether in the media or in a business context. In defamation law this is the defence of fair comment.
