Legal Update: Amendments To Pensions & Retirement Allowances – Employee Benefits & Compensation

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Our Associate, Fatima Alsayed expands on changes to regulations of pensions and retirement allowances for government employees.

The principal law governing the pensions and retirement allowances for government employees is Law No. (13) of 1975 (the “Laws”). On the 18thth of April 2022, the Shura Council along with the Council of Representatives issued amendments under Law No. (13) of 2022 (the “Amendments “or “Amended Law”) to the provisions of the Law. Its provisions provide enhanced financial security for employees working in

UPDATE 8-Bolsonaro backers ransack Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court

(Adds no immediate reports of injuries or deaths)

By Adriano Machado

BRASILIA, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday, in a grim echo of the US Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.

There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from their rampage, but the invaders left a trail of destruction, throwing furniture through the smashed windows of the presidential palace, flooding parts of Congress with a sprinkler system and ransacking ceremonial rooms in the

LEGAL UPDATE – Public Health Directions extended in Queensland

IN BRIEF By way of updates, we attached the Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation (No. 2) 2022.

Summary

On 17 June 2022, Queensland’s declared public health emergency for COVID-19 was extended to 11.59 pm on Thursday 22 September 2022.

Consequently, Public Health Directions (PHD) with an end date of 24 June 2022 have been automatically extended until 11.59 pm on Thursday 22 September 2022. Directions will be progressively updated to reference the new date of 22 September 2022.

What does this mean for you?

If you are an employer or workplace subject to the

Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 – UKSC Weblog

On this put up Rebecca Khan, a Authorized Help Assistant at Matrix Chambers, feedback on the case of Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 – handed down on the 18th of June 2021. This enchantment raised essential questions concerning the software of the scope of responsibility precept in scientific negligence instances. The judgment is handed down along with the court docket’s judgment in Manchester Constructing Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2021] UKSC 20.

The Information

The appellant, Ms Meadows, is the mom of a kid with haemophilia and autism. Previous to her being pregnant, the appellant consulted her GP

Stanford Worldwide Financial institution Ltd (in liquidation) v HSBC Financial institution PLC (Expedited) [2022] UKSC 34 – UKSC Weblog

On attraction from: [2021] EWCA Civ 535

The Appellant (“SIB”) is an organization integrated in Antigua and Barbuda that went into liquidation in 2009. Most of SIB’s enterprise was promoting funding merchandise to worldwide clients. Nonetheless, throughout 2003 to 2009, SIB was being run as a big Ponzi scheme. Buyer withdrawals and funds when funding merchandise supposedly matured had been being comprised of capital invested by different clients reasonably than funding proceeds. In 2008, many shoppers requested withdrawals from SIB fearing that it might turn out to be bancrupt.

SIB had 4 financial institution accounts with the Respondent (“HSBC”). These

Candey Ltd v Crumpler and one other (as Joint Liquidators of Peak Accommodations and Resorts Ltd (In Liquidation)) [2022] UKSC 35 – UKSC Weblog

Candey Ltd, the appellant, acted as a solicitor for Peak Accommodations & Resorts Ltd (“PHRL”) between April 2014 and March 2016 in respect of worldwide litigation and numerous different issues. One such matter was an motion within the Excessive Court docket in London, known as “the London Litigation”.

On 21 October 2015, PHRL entered into a set charge settlement (the “FFA”) with the appellant, underneath which the appellant agreed to proceed to behave for PHRL in return for a set charge (the “Mounted Payment”). Cost of the Mounted Payment was deferred till the handing down of judgment on legal responsibility

Michigan Supreme Court Upholds UCC Statute of Frauds Rule Requiring Quantity Terms To Be In Writing

The Michigan Supreme Court issued an Opinion on July 11, 2023 in MSSC, Inc. v. Airboss Flexible Products Co., reversing a Court of Appeals opinion holding that blanket purchase orders were enforceable under the UCC Statute of Frauds.

In short, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the longstanding Statute of Frauds rule that contracts must contain a written quantity of terms to be binding, including its conclusions that:

  1. The parties’ blanket purchase order, terms and conditions, and other writings lacked a written quantity term.
  2. The term, “blanket,” does not constitute a quantity term within the meaning of the Statute of Frauds,

‘No pressure involved’ in phone call to Arizona governor over 2020 election results

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that he called former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey at Donald Trump’s request to discuss the 2020 election results, but insisted that Trump never pressured him to find evidence to back up his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.

“I did check in, with not only Gov. Ducey, but other governors and states that were going through the legal process of reviewing their election results,” Pence said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “But there was no pressure involved. I was called to get an update. I passed along