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...In South Africa, Bain was described by a judicial report as a corporate enabler of graft during the government of former president Jacob Zuma, when it worked for the country’s tax agency....
...Facebook parent Meta last year failed to overturn the CMA’s ruling that it must sell Giphy, the image-sharing service, unwinding a $315mn deal....
...A judicial review is a type of legal action allowing a court to quash a public body’s decision if it has not followed a proper process....
...Rees-Mogg said he was particularly concerned at the way Bain’s South African division “colluded” with the regime of former president Jacob Zuma to undermine the country’s revenue service....
...But parliamentary, fiscal and judicial hurdles appear set to delay the scheme until May at the earliest....
...Those brave enough to submit mergers for scrutiny in the UK will need to deal with a judicial review system that’s broadly in favour of the regulator....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 3. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It can impose fines of up to 10 per cent of global turnover, but companies can only appeal against its rulings through judicial review rather than on a case’s merits....
...“He needs to have acted in a quasi-judicial fashion, otherwise the risk is the whole thing could come crashing down.”...
...Additional reporting by Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Yuji Kuronuma in Tokyo A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 6 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc....
...Donald Trump accomplished less than any previous US president with a majority in both the legislative and judicial branch....
...As a result, it has this month been criticised in a judicial report as a corporate enabler of graft in South Africa....
...His foundation on Wednesday said he “decided to comply with the incarceration order” and was “on his way to hand himself into a correctional services facility” in KwaZulu-Natal, his home province....
...“Even the Federal Penitentiary Service can’t describe Alexei’s condition as good.”...
...Only 56.8 per cent of its shareholders supported its pay for 2019 and proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis recommended investors vote against its 2020 pay....
...Fox confirmed late on Tuesday that a lawsuit had been filed confidentially with New York’s Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services “by consent of the parties”....
...“And that is something that judicial officers, as human beings, are going to stop and think about.” ‘Not the right model’ Converting drivers to employees is not a straightforward process....
...We have more faith in the US’s well-regarded and independent judicial branch in our search for justice.”...
...“Cosying up to a government which peddles anti-Semitic and Islamophobic rhetoric, attacks migrants and refugees and undermines judicial and media independence is unacceptable.”...
...His non-profit, the Good Law Project, launched a judicial review proceeding against HMRC this May seeking to force the tax authority to evaluate whether more could be done to stem the losses....
...This poses a bit of a quandary for the revenue services....
...At the end of 2018 CoreCivic, which has a market value of $2.3bn, managed almost 80 correctional, detention and re-entry facilities with 78,000 beds....
...Political and judicial hostility towards organised labour and defined benefit pensions has increased....
...consultant said that it was offering to repay R164m ($10.8m), plus interest and value-added taxes, after an internal probe found within a week of investigating that its work for the South African revenue service...
...That is crazily outdated: many tech companies now barter services for data, without collecting money, and the dangers posed by monopolies no longer revolve purely around economics, but also information control...
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