Cross-border: Legal Concepts

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	Title	Resource type	Date
1	Extradition: US ratifies bilateral treaty The UK and the US have ratified a bilateral extradition treaty.	Legal update: archive	29-May-2007
2	Executive extradition: nearly departed On 25 January 2007, the High Court dismissed appeals against an order for the extradition of Ian Norris. On the same day, the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, announced new guidance for handling jurisdictional issues in cross-border criminal cases between the UK and the US.	Legal update: archive	23-Feb-2007
3	Extradition: Norris and NatWest Three lose appeals to House ... On 20 June 2006, the House of Lords refused leave to appeal in two important cases involving orders for extradition to the US.	Legal update: archive	20-Jun-2006
4	Extradition proceedings: NatWest Three lose appeal On 21 February 2006, three former employees of NatWest Bank lost their appeals to the High Court against the order for their extradition to the US to stand trial in the US for the US federal offence of "wire fraud".	Legal update: archive	23-Feb-2006
5	Correction of mistake The Court of Appeal has held that an obvious error in a mutual break clause in a lease could be corrected by applying a process of construction.	Legal update: archive	30-Jan-2006
6	Freedom of establishment The Finnish Seamen's Union and the International Transport Workers' Federation have appealed to the Court of Appeal against an injunction preventing them from taking industrial action in relation to the reflagging of a Finnish ferry, on the basis that such action would breach the ferry owner's freedom of establishment under article 43 of the EC Treaty.	Legal update: archive	20-Sep-2005
7	Extradition proceedings: US extends the long arm of the law Two ongoing cases involving the potential extradition to the US of UK company executives for white-collar offences have highlighted controversial aspects of the UK's arrangements with the US under the Extradition Act 2003.	Legal update: archive	27-Jun-2005
8	Jurisdiction: Article 4(2) presumption The Court of Appeal has considered the circumstances in which the presumption under Article 4(2) of the 1980 Rome Convention that a contract is most closely connected to a particular jurisdiction can be rebutted.	Legal update: archive	26-May-2005
9	Misrepresentation - ascertainment of loss The Court of Appeal has held that a bank was not entitled to damages under a guarantee agreement, even though the defendants had made misrepresentations that induced the bank to enter into a waiver of the guarantee. The claimant had not established any loss as a result of the misrepresentation.	Legal update: archive	15-Mar-2005
10	Dangerous level crossing	Legal update: archive	20-Feb-2003
11	Incorrect QC advice	Legal update: archive	30-Oct-2002
12	Review of the law of negligence	Legal update: archive	30-Oct-2002
13	Consumer credit and human rights The Court of Appeal has held that section 127(3) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 is incompatible with Article 6 and Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights.	Legal update: archive	25-May-2001
14	Defective power of attorney	Legal update: archive	01-May-2001
15	DOL opinion on Prudential Life Insurance demutualisation	Legal update: archive	27-Apr-2001
16	Trust and investment companies	Legal update: archive	05-Apr-2001
17	Directors' fiduciary mandate	Legal update: archive	01-Apr-2001
18	Duty to advise on pending appeals	Legal update: archive	27-Feb-2001
19	Fiduciary duty	Legal update: archive	01-Sep-2000
20	Prospectuses: negligence	Legal update: archive	01-Feb-1998
21	Director fiduciary duty	Legal update: archive	01-Nov-1997
22	Fiduciary duties	Legal update: archive	01-Sep-1997
23	Powers of directors	Legal update: archive	01-Dec-1996
24	Trust corporations law	Legal update: archive	01-Oct-1996
25	Recognition of trusts	Legal update: archive	01-Sep-1996

Cross-border: Legal Concepts

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