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"You break it, you bought it" is not the best policy in the workplace --- the
25, 2011), that employers are prohibited from docking the pay of workers as punishment for causing a “preventable accident.” In reaching this decision, the Court disregarded the fact that the employees in question were only docked a “modest” amount,
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
SC allows Federation counsel to submit reply over contractual employees' issue
A special bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Justice Ghulam Rabbani resumed hearing of a suo motu over Hajj arrangements corruption case.
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
Circular priorities – court of appeal upholds lower court's decision
In April 2010, we reported on the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the “Superior Court”) in In the Matter of the Proposal of CIF Furniture Limited (“CIF”) which dealt with the question of circular priorities.
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
EU collective redress - Commission launches long-awaited public consultation
This, it is thought, could allow justice to be achieved at a reduced cost. Over the past decade, there has been increased debate in Europe on the merits and optimum mechanisms for redressing wrongs on a collective basis. However, reform has generally
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
Deputy crash victim Eric Brody needs political help to settle 13-year-old case
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti wasn't at his Fort Lauderdale headquarters Thursday when the victim of a deputy crash showed up in his wheelchair to pressure him for a legal settlement. The sheriff's spokesman
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
Employment news
In brief, the EAT has held that all administrations, which importantly includes pre-pack administrations, are not capable of constituting "bankruptcy or analogous insolvency proceedings which have been instituted with a view to the liquidation of the
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
ECJ rules that insurers can no longer take gender into account as a risk factor
A challenge by a Belgian consumer group Test-Achats to the exemption from EU equality law for the insurance industry when calculating insurance premiums has today been successful in the European Court of Justice.
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
Appeals court rules against Petrilli, former Booker T. principal
Petrilli's attorneys argued in their appeal that Ishmael made several errors during the circuit court trial, particularly in his jury instructions. Ishmael instructed jurors that they first had to determine whether Petrilli's resignation was voluntary.
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
Murkowski: Why hasn't Bill Allen been prosecuted for alleged sex crimes?
Holder stated that neither “political connections” nor Allen's cooperation with the Department of Justice in the federal probe into Alaska public corruption were the reasons that the convicted briber escaped prosecution for sexual crimes involving
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:13P
Judgment in a DUII
Larry Ragsdale and his fiance Kelcie Yeoman spend a quiet moment together Thursday morning after the sentencing of Shane Chambers, the driver caused the head-on accident that injured him in 2010. Yeoman gets to spend a lot of time with Ragsdale because
Updated: 03/11/2011 12:12P
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