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Corporate crime update - July 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, Iran, North Korea, Spain, Syria, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 16 2012

The SFO has announced that it has obtained a civil recovery order against Oxford Publishing Ltd (OPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxford University Press (OUP

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

German Federal Labour Court: no obligation to increase pensions in spite of economically stable parent company

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • March 10 2011

According to German law, every three years an employer must adjust its current company pensions to the rise in the cost of living, but only if its financial situation allows it to do this

ECJ case may extend the rights of civil partners

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • June 2 2008

In the case of Maruko, the ECJ concluded (in relation to a German pension scheme) that a scheme which failed to provide survivors' benefits to civil partners on the same basis as to spouses could, potentially, infringe laws against indirect discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation