Tag: law news uk

2 min read

Sri Mulyani Applauds Issue of New Financial Sector Law

  • August 10, 2024
TEMPO. CO, Jakarta – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo enacted the Draft Bill on the Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (PPSK) as Law No.4/2023 (PPSK Law). Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati explained that the government and House legislators managed to reach an agreement on five major points regulated in the PPSK Law. “The first is the improvement of financial sector authorities with a main focus on institutional; independence,” minister Sri mentioned in a written statement on Friday, January 13, 2023. The second and third aspect, Sri continued, is the improvement of governance and increasing public trust, and encouraging the…
2 min read

Law society issues citation to another former Alberta justice minister

  • July 22, 2023
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Another former Alberta justice minister has been cited by the professional oversight body for lawyers for his conduct. In the citation posted to the Law Society of Alberta website, Kaycee Madu is alleged to have “engaged in conduct that undermined respect for the administration of justice” when he called Edmonton Police Service Chief Dale McFee over a traffic ticket on March 10, 2021. CBC News first broke the story of the phone call. Hours after news of that phone call was made public, then-premier Jason Kenney stripped Madu of his cabinet post,…
4 min read

Michael Cohen plans to call Donald Trump Jr. as a witness in trial over legal fees

  • July 15, 2023
Donald Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen plans to call one of the former president’s sons as a witness in an upcoming trial over whether Trump’s company owes up to $1.3 million in legal fees to Cohen, his attorneys said Friday. Cohen, who originally sued the Trump Organization in March 2019, wants the Trump Organization to pay his fees stemming from Cohen’s defense of Trump and himself during investigations in 2017 and 2018, and during roughly 20 meetings with the Manhattan district attorney and a grand jury before Trump was indicted in March. An attorney for Cohen said in court Friday that…
5 min read

Anti-vaccine doctor’s fans flood court, claiming to be ‘common-law grand jury’ in his $66.6M lawsuit

  • July 12, 2023
Room 31 at the Vancouver law courts is normally a quiet, somewhat boring place, where lawyers present brief arguments on procedural questions and spectators rarely present. But Friday morning was different. As a clerk attempted to organize a long list of matters on the docket, about two dozen supporters of anti-vaccine activist Daniel Nagase flooded into the courtroom and declared himself a “common-law grand jury under the Magna Carta.” Members of the crowd, some wearing shirts reading “Purebloods Stand Together,” took turns reading out a statement charging a government lawyer with obstruction of justice for attempting to have Nagase’s $66.6-million…
3 min read

Manitoba politicians set to pass a host of new laws before heading into election – Winnipeg

  • June 3, 2023
Manitoba politicians are working to pass many bills into law by Thursday — the last scheduled sitting before the summer break and the provincial election slated for Oct. 3. Aside from its recently passed budget legislation, the Progressive Conservative government is also set to give First Nations communities more power to enforce laws and collect unpaid fines. Other bills that have passed in recent days or are about to pass include one that would make it easier for victims of sue people who share intimate images without consent. Several bills from opposition parties are also set to be approved in…
2 min read

Eaton County grapples with enforcing state laws or county resolutions

  • May 24, 2023
EATON COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) – New gun reform laws in Michigan are creating controversy in some communities. The sheriff’s office in Eaton County is being asked to decide between enforcing new state laws or enforcing new county resolutions. The Eaton County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to make the county a “constitutional county.” The Livingston County Sheriff and Board of Commissioners previously said they won’t enforce the red flag law, and the Eaton County Board of Commissioners recently passed a similar resolution. “Because mainly, I believe in the second amendment of the constitution, that allows us to take and…
5 min read

Tax season: How getting married, becoming common law impacts your filing – National

  • April 26, 2023
As more Canadians enter common-law relationships, experts are encouraging young couples to educate themselves on the implications of taxes. “There are credits that you may be used to get, if you’re a single person,” said Stefanie Ricchio, a Toronto-based CPA. “There is a little element of surprise.” In 2021, more than one in five Canadian couples were common-law, meaning they lived together in an official, legal union without being legally married. That’s a 447 per cent growth in common-law couples since 40 years earlier, according to Statistics Canada, though married couples still make up the bulk of Canadian couples. It’s…
3 min read

The NL Federation of Labor calls on government to overhaul new pay equity legislation

  • April 19, 2023
It’s only been in effect since October, yet Jessica McCormick believes Newfoundland and Labrador’s pay equity legislation needs to be revamped. The leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador Labor Federation says the bill the government passed was better than nothing but fell way short of a comprehensive set of laws to improve the lives of women in the workforce. The NLFL partnered with the Equal Pay Coalition in Ontario to produce an overview and critique of the legislation, which it published earlier this week, as the government is in the middle of consultations on the regulations that go with the…