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Tanzania parliament votes on PM resignation amid corruption scandal

01/12/2014(0)
Tanzania’s parliament voted on Saturday to dismiss senior officials, including the attorney general and the minister of energy, following a report released earlier this week implicating public officials in a ... Read More
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UK passes tough new transparency law for oil, gas and mining companies

01/12/2014(0)
A historic law came into force in the UK today that will help fight poverty and corruption in resource-rich but poor countries said Global Witness, which has been campaigning ... Read More
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Deloitte Said to Face Saudi Regulator’s Ban on Audit Work

01/12/2014(0)
Deloitte LLP may be blocked from auditing companies in Saudi Arabia after the country’s market regulator told firms registered in the kingdom to stop using its local services, according ... Read More
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Goldman, BASF, HSBC accused of metals price fixing: U.S. lawsuit

28/11/2014(0)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Germany’s BASF(BASFn.DE) and two other big platinum and palladium dealers have been sued in the United States in what the plaintiff’s law firm called the first ... Read More
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Clive Palmer case in court: dense legal wrangling with a cast of hundreds

27/11/2014(0)
Big money, big legal teams and a big call to make against a larger-than-life tycoon turned political phenomenon. But at the end of another round of labyrinthine legal argument, ... Read More
Energy-markets

Legal Fight Pits Sellers of Energy Against Buyers

27/11/2014(0)
Over the past few years, the federal government has nurtured the growth of an odd kind of player in the energy markets: companies that recruit consumers to unplug themselves ... Read More
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Funding secured for Tesco shareholder class action

26/11/2014(0)
Australian litigation funder Bentham has made its biggest entry yet in the European market by agreeing to fund a class action against supermarket giant Tesco. The European subsidiary will ... Read More
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Germany to introduce legal quotas for women on company boards

26/11/2014(0)
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition parties agreed on Tuesday to a draft law that would force Germany’s leading listed companies to allocate 30 percent of the seats on non-executive boards ... Read More
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EU blackmails Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia

21/11/2014(0)
Serbia must impose sanctions against Russia if it wants to join the European Union, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn said. “Serbia legally obliged, within the scope ... Read More
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Wall Street Used Commodities Storage, Tankers for Unfair Gain, Senate Panel Finds

20/11/2014(0)
Wall Street’s biggest banks have used their ownership of metals warehouses, oil tankers and other commodities businesses to gain unfair trading advantages and dominate markets, according to a U.S. ... Read More
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