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Amendments to the federal laws - Amendments to the town planning and land laws - Federal Law No. 283-FZ On Amendments to the Russian Federation Town-Planning Code and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation of August 2, 2019 -...By: Dentons

OHL and Contrack v. Qatar Foundation [2019] - A decision of an English court in October 2019 has considered aspects of the Qatar Civil Code in the context of termination of a contract where a party was in default. This is an interesting development...By: Dentons

Our autumn round-up of articles written by colleagues highlights a wide range of issues affecting businesses in the UK construction industry....By: Dentons

Corporate, social and responsibility (CSR): three words when spoken together ought to mean something powerful, something fundamental and at the heart of what an enterprise does. Yet, they do not mean that, do they? They never have. In truth, CSR has...By: Dentons

There has been an important milestone in the search for more legal certainty in gun-jumping cases: On September 26, 2019, Advocate General (AG) Tanchev issued his opinion in the Marine Harvest case (C-10/18 P) and recommended that the European Court...By: Dentons

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, signed into law in February 2018, made several changes to the rules governing hardship withdrawals from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Questions regarding these new rules were finally resolved when the Internal Revenue...By: Dentons

As we know, a temporary residence permit (razreshenie na vremennoye prozhivanie) confirms a foreign national’s right to temporarily reside in the Russian Federation. It is usually issued for a three-year period. A permanent residence permit (vid na...By: Dentons

Does a corporate director of a vendor corporation owe independent fiduciary duties to a purchasing corporation in the context of an asset purchase? In Manson Insulation Products Ltd. v Crossroads C & I Distributors, 2019 ABQB 684 (Manson), the Court...By: Dentons

On September 7, 2019, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 6, 2019, No. 743 “On additional measures for the regulation of labor relations in the labor market” (hereinafter referred to as “Resolution...By: Dentons

The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Act 2019 came into force on 23 July 2019. It has made a number of amendments to several laws....By: Dentons