On Tuesday, the U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—known as the “Export Enforcement Five” or “E5”—issued joint guidance to industry and academia on how best to identify Russian export control evasion tactics. The E5 coordinates with other members of the Global Export Control Coalition (GECC) on export controls specific to Russia. In addition to
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Punjabi language interview on RedFM discussing the suspension of visa services to Canadians
By Raj Sharma
I was asked to discuss the unprecedent suspension of visa services to Canadians on RedFM on September 22, 2023.
Note: the suspension of visa services only applies to new or pending applications; it does not impact the rights of anyone that holds an OCI or valid visa to India.
Five Sports Law Programs from the ‘Top Twenty You Need to Know About’
By Holt Hackney
Many aspiring lawyers want to utilize their legal training in the sports industry. “Sports law,” at its core, is the application of legal principles and thought to sports-industry clients. Therefore, lawyers practicing nearly any type of law—be it personal injury, labor and employment, immigration or corporate—could consider themselves a “sports lawyer” if they have clients…
New illegal working fines will not stop Channel crossings but will bankrupt small businesses
Back in “Small Boats Week” during the summer, the government announced the tripling of employer penalties for illegal workers to £45,000 per worker. The immigration minister said that the increase was necessary because “making it harder for illegal migrants to work and operate in the UK is vital to deterring dangerous, unnecessary small boat crossings”…
World Maritime Day 2023
Written by Frederik Scholaert.
World Maritime Day is celebrated each year on the last Thursday of September. Every time a new theme is chosen to highlight different aspects of maritime activities. This year, the theme on 28 September 2023 is ‘MARPOL at 50 – Our commitment goes on’, marking the 50th anniversary of the International Convention for…
Bus station skank
By Dan Hull
Is it bus station skank month at FB and Instagram? Keep getting these messages and follows from 20 year olds named Nadine, Rickylee and Boneeta ask me how I am and say they’re looking for “a good man but as many as possible is ok 2….” Wtf.
Canadian Bar Association Magazine Article on Supreme Court Analytics
National, the magaize of the Canadian Bar Association, has published an article on Forecasting the Supreme Court’s work:”Judicial analytics is what happens when modern information processing techniques like machine learning are applied to the work of courts, judges and lawyers. Companies offering judicial analytics services make some bold claims — that their products can…
Great Library at the Law Society of Ontario Blog Post on Finding Orders in Council
Know How, the blog of the Great Library at the Law Society of Ontario, has a new post explaining the different ways of Finding Federal Orders in Council:”Sourcing Orders in Council is rarely a straightforward task. Often researchers will experience frustrating hiccups in their search as they are faced with where to find unpublished…
Noncompete Agreements are Slowly Going Extinct in the U.S.
Companies utilizing noncompete agreements in the U.S. in the employment context should reevaluate their practices in light of recent changes to law and a rapidly changing legal landscape that is growing increasingly hostile to noncompete agreements.
Early this year, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a rule that would ban noncompete clauses nation-wide in the…
Nominet takes over Bounty mutineers’ ccTLD
By Kevin Murphy
Nominet has taken over management of the Pitcairn Islands’ ccTLD, .pn, judging by its web site and IANA records updated this week.
The site at nic.pn says UK registry Nominet is going to modernize the registry to use the EPP standard — this should make .pn accessible to thousands of registrars — and implement DNSSEC.…