SCOTTISH companies risk criminal prosecution under the new Bribery Act for activities by agents overseas, while companies in the rest of the UK will at least be able to negotiate a civil settlement with the Serious Fraud Office. Law firm McGrigors has invited the director of the SFO Richard Alderman to address an oil company forum in Aberdeen this week, amid what it calls "increasing confusion over the progress of the new Bribery Act".
PRINCE Charles is to rely on European human rights law to ensure the legality of his marriage. His intention to have a civil wedding is legally 'beyond doubt' because of new human rights rules, Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said yesterday in an emergency statement.
AS THE same sex marriage debate continues in America with a trial beginning this month in San Francisco over whether individual states have the right to ban gay couples from getting married, here in the UK, December 2010 sees the 5th anniversary of the Civil Partnership Act. According to the most recent information published by the Office for National Statistics the total number of partnerships formed since the Civil Partnership Act became law is 33,956 as at the end of 2008.
...“ CPR ” means the Civil Procedure Rules 1998(6) and “CPR” followed by ...
Ontrary to most people's beliefs, cohabiting couples have no rights if their relationship breaks down. The Law Commission has recommended that new laws should give some cohabiting couples financial rights when a relationship is over. The recommendations are part of a paper published this week called Cohabitation: The Financial Consequences of Relationship Breakdown. At the moment, the law only provides protection and assistance for people who have been married, or have been in a civil partnership. For these couples, the Matrimonial Causes Act, and all the subsequent case law, can suggest what is a fair and reasonable division of the marital assets.
Concern is mounting over marriages of convenience - an unintentional loophole in the new Civil Partnerships Act. Experts in the family and matrimonial team at Birmingham law firm Mills & Reeve are the latest to predict it could prove a serious issue.
The US Civil Rights Act came into force on this day in 1964 and outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. The landmark legislation ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who would later sign the landmark Voting Rights Act into law.
... AND MAGISTRATES’ COURTS ACT 1978 AND THE CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT 2004. Applications for variation u...
TOGETHER: Fergal, left, and Danny lived as a couple in London before moving to Ireland IT IS a picture that will delight the gay community in Ireland and shock some religious conservatives; the photograph of the first gay couple in Ireland to publicly tie the knot. These exclusive pictures by the Irish Mail on Sunday show Danny Ryan and Fergal Johnston as they registered their civil union in the Bracken Court Hotel in Balbriggan. Even a few years ago, a same-sex union was unthinkable in Ireland. But thanks to the Civil Partnership Act that came into force last month, the union of gay couples is now recognised under Irish law.
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