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The firm also has added two Associate Partners - Kedar Naniwadekar and Niharika Gaonkar - to its media and entertainment non-litigation team.

No one will argue that authorised push payment fraud victims don't deserve justice, but which parties are liable for making it right? In the United Kingdom, many cases have passed through the courts, setting precedents for handling such incidents, with ramifications for banks, third parties and victims at both ends of these transactions.

Despite efforts evidenced by the legal framework analyzed above, child labour remains a significant issue in many parts of the world, particularly in regions with high poverty rates and limited access to education and social services.

Technology continues to shape the human society in more ways than man is conscious of. There is however, a need to provide legal basis for the interaction of man with technology in the different spheres of human interconnection, as the law gives validity to human actions, generally.

Financial consequences for start-up businesses can be crippling

The Nigerian Criminal Code and Penal Code were enacted in the 1900s borrowing old ideas. Their provisions on sexual offences have undergone very minor and insignificant changes or amendments. The VAPP Act went a very long way to cover most of the loopholes contained in the Criminal Code and Penal Code. However, it still contains one great loophole which is the fact that it does not recognize attempted rape.

Greenberg Traurig continues expanding its Phoenix office with Litigation Practice Shareholders Laura Sixkiller and Kate L. Benveniste  rejoining the firm.

An accused person can be convicted on the basis of his confessional statement alone once shown to be free, voluntary, positive, direct and unequivocal, reason being that the strongest evidence establishing the guilt of an accused person is his own confession.

Pryor Cashman Partner Todd Soloway, co-chair of the Litigation Group, chair of the Hotel + Hospitality Group and Real Estate Litigation Practice, and member of the firm's Executive Committee...

Garnishee proceeding is a fundamental procedure for the enforcement of a judgment debt. The aim is to ensure that a judgment is not rendered nugatory or a judgment creditor denied the fruits of his judgment. However, the intricacies of the law must be adhered to strictly otherwise, the entire proceeding may be invalidated on appeal.