The first Initial Creditors Meeting (ICM) to be recorded under Nigeria’s 2020 Companies and Allied Matters Act as well as the new Insolvency Regulations 2022 was held yesterday, Thursday, 20th October, 2022, at the Moorhouse Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos State. The…
British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation Thursday after 44 days in office, making her the shortest-serving prime ministers in British history. Truss, the country’s third female prime minister, was unable to save her embattled premiership even though she…
President Muhammadu Buhari has given his assent to Nigeria Start-up Bill 2022, which now becomes an Act. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami revealed this to State House Correspondents, shortly after the President appended his signature on the…
The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly in South-West Nigeria, Funminiyi Afuye is dead. “Rt. Hon Afuye died Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado- Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest,”…
Extract – As the British Virgin Islands focused on the sales of companies, the Cayman Islands on the hedge fund market and Bermuda on insurance and reinsurance capital, the Turks and Caicos Islands (“TCI”) looked much closer to home as…
In Canada, as the make up of families change, the resolution of parenting issues becomes more complex. The laws in each province and the federal laws set out a non-inclusive list of factors for the Court to consider when deciding…
The discovery of oil in Guyana has proved transformative beyond all expectations for both itself and its main investors, namely ExxonMobil for whom the small South American country now represents roughly 6% of global production. With output having reached 300,000…
In the last 30 to 40 years, Canadian case law and legislation on Indigenous rights have evolved. For example, Canadian courts have articulated the substance of principles such as the duty to consult, fiduciary duty and Honour of the Crown….
Major challenges We are all aware of the major challenges we have faced in the past two to three years. Covid of course being top of the list, with lockdowns, death of loved ones, businesses failing and a huge increase…
Welcome It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this first edition of the Americas Hub newsletter. It has been prepared with the diligent and attentive help of Sophie Stanbrook, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association Council member for the Turks…