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Legislation update

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 2 2007

HMRC announced the following proposed regulations on its website on 12 December 2006

Guidance for executive compensation in this environment

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 28 2009

A common theme among the Obama administration, Congress, investors and regulators is that executive compensation must be refocused on different fundamentals: long-term value rather than short-term profits; financial stability; and management of risks

Can the owner of a business also be an employee?

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 7 2009

The question of whether a company's majority shareholder can also be an employee of the same company has come before the courts on a number of occasions, often in the context of an insolvent business and a claim being made to the National Insurance Fund

Businesses must not discriminate when providing services

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 1 2007

Regulations which form part of the Equality Act 2006 came into force on 30 April 2007

Damages

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 29 2009

Lawsuits arise for nearly as many reasons as there are plaintiffs

First "new" corporate manslaughter case

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 12 2009

According to the CPS’ own press release advertising the case, on 23 April it authorised the first charge of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act

Third Circuit addresses standard for evaluating misappropriation of confidential information claims

  • Ogletree Deakins
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  • USA
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  • September 2 2009

In this case, the defendant’s previous employer sued him, as well as his new employer, after learning that he had misappropriated product information which he then used to capture his former employer’s clients

Liability for failure to notify customer of departure of employee

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 27 2009

In the case of Fitzroy Robinson Limited v Mentmore Towers Limited, the High Court considered whether a service provider would be liable for failure to inform its client of an employee's inability to continue to take a key role in the provision of that service

Directors’ pay packages

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 26 2009

The damage that the recession is doing to UK plcs and the wider economy will influence executive pay decisions over the next few months

CCGG advances ‘say-on-pay’ policy and executive compensation principles

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 2 2009

The views of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) on executive compensation have evolved and advanced with the release in April 2009 of the CCGG’s Shareholder Engagement and ‘Say-on-Pay’ Policy and in June 2009 of the CCGG’s Executive Compensation Principles