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Crisis Group Libya Update #4 Format This Briefing Note assesses the outcome of a UN-backed forum that took place in Geneva from 1-5 February and where Libyan delegates elected a new interim executive. It is the fourth in a series of regular updates on efforts to end Libya’s civil war. Against All Odds, Libya's Peace Process Makes Substantial Progress On 5 February, Libyan delegates attending UN-hosted political talks in Geneva nominated a new unified interim executive for their country, which has been split in two regions, each administered separately, since 2014. They chose eastern Libya's...

one in one out" applied to the introduction of new regulatory measures. In its report to the OECD, the government claimed that "3,095 regulations were scrapped or improved and thereof 1,376 changes [had] a material benefit" – apparently amounting to more than £1.2 billion. The Deregulation Act 2015 enacted many of the reforms identified by this exercise. The New Labour years saw the rise of Regulatory Impact Assessments for new legislation and policies (later increasingly known as Impact Assessments), and the ascendancy of the Better Regulation Executive and Regulatory Policy Committee. ...

Premier Ford's motion for a dismissal of the action In applying the tests under s. 137.1, Justice Belobaba found that Premier Ford's burden to meet the test that the claim involved a matter of public interest was easily met and there was no dispute on this issue between the parties. This shifted the onus onto the plaintiff to meet his burdens under the section. The issue of “substantial merit” was not argued as the court directed before the hearing of the motion that only the issues of “no valid defence” and the weighing exercise under s. 137.1(4)(b) required consideration. Premier Fo...

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Crisis Group Libya Update #3 Format Fragile Progress toward a Unity Government for Libya Despite a reported breakthrough in mid-January, there are still many steps to take before an interim unity government can emerge in Libya. The country has been divided in two, between two parallel governments and military coalitions that have been intermittently at war, since 2014. Participants in the 75-member forum that the UN assembled to bring the two back together agreed on an internal voting mechanism for appointing top officials. But the complicated voting process could easily trigger further dispu...