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Herbert Smith Freehills fine and the long shadow of the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Read more: Herbert Smith Freehills fine and the long shadow of the Common Foreign and Security PolicyThis week, one of the UK’s leading law firms – Herbert Smith Freehills – was fined almost half a million pounds for breaching sanctions against Russian banks. The reason for the fine was ‘making funds available for the benefit of a designated person without a licence’ – the designated persons in this case being three banks: Alfa-Bank JSC, PJSC Sovcombank, and PJSC Sberbank. The payments arose as a consequence of…
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Stateless Children: International Surrogacy and the War in Ukraine
Read more: Stateless Children: International Surrogacy and the War in UkraineRebecca Gladwin-Geoghegan comments on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on international surrogacy arrangements and the children born out of them.
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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: An Unjustifiable Breach of International Law
Read more: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: An Unjustifiable Breach of International LawDr Andrew Jones examines the extent to which Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine amounts to a violation of international law.