Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority update

Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year for 2016 is “post-truth” — an adjective defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. …

Phase II Registration with National Privacy Commission …

In a recent landmark ruling, the UK Supreme Court deliberated on the question of whether an overseas defendant had to have submitted to the jurisdiction under common law before a foreign bankruptcy order would be recognised and enforced in England. Richard Keady and Jay Qin of Bird & Bird consider the practical implications of the decision and the significance it may have on practitioners going forward.

In Part 1, Kenny Tung reviewed the path of Kodak in the face of disruptive changes that may shed some light on the challenges of the legal profession today. Here, he takes a look at some of the changes taking place in the legal industry and proposes three reminders of how we should approach the developments ahead.