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On 27 April 2021, the UK implemented its new Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regime, enhancing its existing Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, which came into force in July 2020. The new Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) enable the UK Foreign Secretary to impose asset freezes and travel bans on designated individuals and entities linked to certain corrupt activities, and criminalises the breach of those sanctions within the UK, as well as any breach by any UK individual or UK entity wherever located. That includes UK subsidiaries of foreign companies.
The purpose of the regime is to prevent and combat serious governmental corruption, by stopping those involved from entering and channelling money through the UK. The system is broadly similar to those in place in the US and Canada. The regime has been implemented under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA), which esta
Trini Windrush victim eager to reunite with family
Windrush victim Lynda Mahabir and her husband, Winston -
Trinidadian national Lynda Mahabir, a victim of the Windrush scandal in the United Kingdom, says she is looking forward to being reunited with her family soon.
Last week, a UK High Court ruled that the Secretary for the Home Department had committed “a colossal interference’” in Mahabir’s right to family life.
She took the government to court claiming the financial impact of the fees for them to apply to enter the UK had separated her from her husband, Winston, and five children.
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The UK s High Court delivered a ringing endorsement of the country s new restructuring regime this week in a landmark ruling on gym chain Virgin Active, showing that companies have a new route other than CVAs to cut their debts to landlords. Silas Brown and Owen Sanderson report.
Two high profile restructuring cases came before the courts this week, but under different circumstances.On Tuesday, ailing fashion retailer New Look defended itself against a challenge from some of its landlords over the use of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to help stave off administration. The following day,
The special court had in December 2019 declared Nirav Modi a fugitive economic offender, on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a probe into the case
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Swatch AG has successfully appealed to the UK High Court against a 2017 opposition decision, which had found in favour of Apple Inc in relation to the watch company’s application for the marks SWATCH ONE MORE THING and ONE MORE THING on the grounds of bad faith. Apple’s complaint arose from the inclusion of the catchphrase ‘One more thing’, which Apple CEOs had used as a marketing hook in new Apple product launches.
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Swatch, the well-known watch company, and Apple had been involved in a UK opposition over the marks I-WATCH and I-SWATCH. That opposition was won by Swatch in 2016, based on its I-SWATCH international registration in Class 14. Apple was refused registration for I-WATCH for “ Monitors and monitoring devices; cameras; computers; computer hardware; wireless communication devices; radios; audio and video devices; global positioning system devices; accessories, parts, components, and cases for all