Legal updates/ News impacting Europe, Asia & Australasia
(updated 21 October 2013)
1. Courts stand by for rising wave of class action litigation flowing from US (Source : The Australian)
2. Top Chinese firms face Canadian lawsuit over capital markets transactions (Source : The Lawyer)
3. Slavery traps nearly 30 million people worldwide, including Pakistan (Source : Aljazeera Americas)
4. Nations adopt landmark mercury pollution convention (Source : BBC News UK)
5. Energy Subsidies and the World Trade Organization (Source : American Society of International Law)
6. Lloyds Banking Group offloads Australian assets (Source : The Lawyer)
7. Convertible bonds: Investors seek convertible cover from rate rises (Source: Euromoney)
8. Japan: The ifs and buts of Abenomics (Source : Euromoney)
9. Merger of the Century by Diane Francis: Review (Source : The Star, Malaysia)
10. US debt deal hailed by world markets: Why is India negative? (Source : The Economic Times)
11. South Asia Economic Focus: Turmoil in Global Capital Markets is a Wake-Up Call for South Asia, World Bank Says (Source : The World Bank)