DStv has come under fire from subscribers demanding a decrease in their monthly instalments due to the lack of live sport for broadcast.

The EFF says it has contributed R6 million towards the Solidarity Fund and has challenged others who had pledged towards the fund to produce proof of their promised contributions.

A growing number of people in Germany are resisting lockdown measures imposed to contain the coronavirus. The rift between those who support the measures and those who are critical of them is growing.

After the Allies defeated Germany and ended World War II in Europe in summer 1945, peace finally prevailed on the Continent. The Germans were beaten, desperate and ashamed, but also ready to get back to normal life following the trauma. By DER SPIEGEL Staff

Kim Sang-jo, Chairman of the Fair Trade Commission, said, "Our commission will soon announce plans to stop the practice of large companies using technology of small enterprises without proper compensation." He held a press conference on August 13 at the Sejong government complex in relation to his agency's bid to root out unfair practices in the retail industry and said, "The biggest obstacle for small- and medium-sized enterprises for their further development is the uneven relationship with...

Park Sam-koo, chairman of Kumho Asiana Group, will submit a self-rescue plan for Kumho Tire that includes the sell-off of Chinese plants to the creditors by September 12. In addition, he will sell off a 4.4-percent stake in Daewoo Engineering & Construction worth 130 billion won while asking executives to return their pays as part of the restructuring measures. An industry official familiar with the matter said on September 11, "Kumho Asiana will soon deliver to the creditors a high-inten...

“Not a Dirty Word”: ESMA revisits the impact of its Opinion on delegation for UK managers if there is a “hard” Brexit In the wake of the draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, a speech by Steven Maijoor, th...

Good and bad news Yesterday, Chancellor Alistair Darling announced some changes to the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) legislation, which will impact on those companies operating EMI and those proposing to do so. The good news Under the cu...

Pension Ombudsman determinations are a snap shot of issues which can and do arise in relation to the LGPS. This speedbrief looks at two recent determinations relating to the construction of the LGPS Regulations and the effect of in...

By RNZ The cost of mandatory quarantine on both sides of the Tasman means a New Zealander living in Brisbane will not be reunited with his dying mother in Auckland.A close friend of the man - both of whom RNZ has agreed not...

A man involved in a $2.5 million meth bust in Hawke's Bay has had his three and a half year prison sentence dropped to 12 months of home detention.Uriah Whetu Monty Wirihana received a prison sentence of three years and seven months...

div class="element-action-button"> SIGN UP TO OUR COVID-19 NEWSLETTER. SIGN IN OR REGISTER, THEN SELECT TOP NEWS STORIES A Ministry of Health review of previously turned down requests to leave compulsory isolation early on compassionate...

A man has been taken to hospital after a he was hurt by a bull in Southland this afternoon.St John Ambulance tweeted that they had been called to Riversdale, 30 kilometres north-west of Gore, just after 4pm."Two vehicles attended...

A man trapped under a tree has been freed and will soon be on his way to hospital.Emergency services were alerted to the man's plight about 5.30pm, a Southern Fire and Emergency spokesman said.As well as police and St John Ambulance...

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The Amakhosi forward continues to receive rave reviews with his former Cape Town City teammate joining in the praises ......

The Wekundu wa Msimbazi winger has been out for a considerable period as he was injured during international duty for the Taifa Stars ......

An arson case is being investigated after a tavern was torched in Hambanathi, Tongaat, outside Durban, following the discovery of human remains in the nearby Wewe River, KwaZulu-Natal police say. ......

Overview On 28 November 2019, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published its final guidelines[1] on information and communication technology (“ICT”) and security risk management (EBA/GL/2019/04) (the “Guidelines&r...

1.1 Which Corona related administrative orders must be differentiated in Germany and what are their effects? The local health departments are, on a case-by-case basis, entitled to prohibit the happening of any kind of event that includes a significa...

1.1 What impact might production downtime or circumstances with similar effect have on supply contracts? Reduced production or similar measurements and resulting supply shortages can cause severe problems to distributors or intermediaries, as they ...

The German Federal Cartel Office (“Bundeskartellamt”, BKartA) has issued a decision stating that attempts by Germany’s largest supermarket, EDEKA, to force suppliers to grant it so called “wedding rebates”, in the form ...

What is the Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme ("ESOS")? ESOS is the UK Government’s implementation of a particular requirement of the Energy Efficiency Directive regarding energy audits.  It requires energy assessments (including the ide...

Whether an office Christmas party takes place within working hours, out of hours, in the office or away from the office, it is considered an extension of the working environment.  While no one wants to be the office scrooge and take away the po...

1. Upcoming German Annual General Meetings season 2020 A lot of German corporates have traditionally lined up their annual general meetings (AGM) for May, June and July. In the wake of the co-rona virus crisis, the boards of a large number of compa...

What sellers and buyers can do to agree on a purchase price Due to the economic turmoil that has been caused due to Covid-19 Sellers and Buyers are trying to find common grounds for the valuation of target companies ("Target"). Many Sellers are sti...

Eversheds Sutherland have advised the management team shareholders on the sale of a significant minority stake in Waterlogic, a UK-based designer, manufacturer, distributor and service provider of purified water dispensers, to four strong instituti...

Eversheds Sutherland has advised Investment House Q.P.S.C. (“IH”), one of the leading investment banks and asset managers in Qatar, in connection with the first private fund in the country to invest in the alternative asset class of commercial shipp...

The new product safety and market surveillance package of the European Commission The German Product Safety Act not only contains regulations on the safety of consumer products, product monitoring as well as on product warnings and recalls. It also ...

On 31 March 2015, the German Federal Cartel Office (“Bundeskartellamt”, BKartA) announced that it has blocked the proposed takeover of approximately 450 Kaiser’s Tengelmann supermarket branches by EDEKA, the leading German food ret...

In July 2017, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) published a detailed guidance paper (the “Guidance Paper”) on resale price maintenance (“RPM”) in the retail food sector. The purpose of the paper is to expl...

It is becoming increasingly common for a buyer to engage a third party service provider to supervise the construction of a new vessel on its behalf. However to date there has been no standard form contract upon which the buyer and supervisor could b...

We report on Romania’s recently introduced data protection law, focussing on the provisions relating to the processing of national identification numbers and the rules on the use of CCTV and monitoring in an employment context. In July 2018, R...

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What you need to know UK regulatory guidance has been updated to explain what ‘manifestly unfounded’ and ‘excessive’ means in relation to the individual rights of data subjects under GDPR. This includes but is not limited to ...

The Central Bank of Malaysia or Bank Negara Malaysia (‘BNM’) on 18 July 2019 issued another policy document which sets out its requirements to the nation’s Financial Institutions (‘FIs’) management of technology risk. W...

While fines recently imposed by the French and UK data protection supervisory authorities have been high, the supervisory authorities in Germany have so far imposed rather moderate penalties. This could now be changed by a new model for calculating ...

On 4 June 2019 the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf ruled in favour of Booking.com’s revised “narrow” Most Favourite Nation (“MFN”) clause (Case No. VI-Kart 2/16 (V)). The reactions were predictable. German hote...

Overview The Securitisation Regulation (Regulation) comes into force on 1 January 2019, establishes a general framework for securitisation and creates a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation. The Regulation is a ...