How do in-house teams claim legal privilege and establish their independence? According to Sascha Hindmarch, General Counsel, University of South Australia and Martin Meredith, barrister at Commercial Chambers, an in-house legal team acts for the business but is not a function of it. They highlight the key features of the nature of privilege and effective ways to adduce evidence of independence.
Keeping an eye on corruption
In this month’s edition of ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL, we provide you with a Mekong Region Update. Industry experts from Gide Loyrette Nouel offer up a comprehensive overview on the current status of infrastructure in these largely underdeveloped countries bound together by the Mekong River. We learn that some of these countries are seeing sweeping economic and legal changes and here we discover how this has impacted the landscape in terms of foreign investment and new projects in the pipeline.
Poised to become a US$225 billion industry by 2020, the Indian information technology (IT) sector has been a significant growth catalyst for the country’s economy.Our Special Report on the telecoms, media and technology sectors outlines some recent key developments in the country’s rapidly changing regulatory framework. We also turn the spotlight on China’s efforts to open up its audiovisual imports market and ask whether they are enough to benefit foreign investors. With editorial contributions from Khaitan & Co and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
As many firms increasingly come under fire for their charge-out methods,
Stephen Hopkins, International Head of Eversheds elucidates us with a checklist
which sets out ways in which in-house counsel and their external teams can
add value and achieve their client’s objectives while attempting to stay
within budget. Timely co-ordination and communication between the two
teams and the client are critical, he states.
Bringing China’s arbitration rules up to date and in line with international standards has far-reaching advantages, including greater transparency and more scope for choice from the parties’ point of view. Stuart Dutson and Yang Zhao of Eversheds provide an overview of the key changes to the CIETAC Rules (2012) and outline the impact these amendments will have on arbitral proceedings in China.
Organisations in Asia, as with elsewhere in the world, cannot function effectively without a well-organised and responsive workforce. Labour disturbances can, therefore, quickly throw a company’s operations into turmoil. In our Special Report on Employment this month, we hear why it is imperative for organisations to prepare for potential employment disputes at the earliest possible moment, and how companies in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand can keep their internal engines running smoothly.
David Smyth and Warren Ganesh, of Smyth & Co in association with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, summarise the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on legal advice privilege and some key points for lawyers, in-house lawyers and other professional advisers.
In our landmark issue, we present the results of our annual Representing Corporate Asia and Middle East Survey, the most far-reaching and objective survey of in-house counsel and buyers of legal services along the New Silk Road. We uncover the issues which affect the working relationship between in-house counsel and private practitioners and announce the winners of our Firms of the Year 2011. Spotlighting some of the winning practice groups in each jurisdiction, we examine how they maintain their competitive edge and how they manage to outpace their rivals in a mercurial market.
Carrie Yang and Amanda Li of Clyde & Co contemplate how the insurance market will change in China once the government implements strict liability for food safety.
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