Sentences with phrase «last year the law»

Last year the Law Society (LS) published evidence on the lack of availability of legal aid for housing advice in many areas of England and Wales.

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Before you break into a sweat over the small business requirements in the health - care legislation signed into law last month, take a deep breath: Many of its provisions will take months if not years to go into effect.

The San Francisco - based start - up moved to store its Chinese data locally in 2016 but China further introduced a strict cybersecurity law last year that requires foreign and local tech firms to offer technical support to authorities who wish to access it.

Manafort also attended a meeting last year at Trump Tower with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son - in - law Jared Kushner as well as two Russian lobbyists who were said to have offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.

«Employees are more and more connected during hours outside of the office,» said Myriam el Khomri, France's Minister of Labor, when she proposed the law last year.

Google closed down the service in Spain last year after a new law forced it to pay for publishing even small amounts of copyrighted information.

Scandal has followed PokerStars — last year saw a $ 870 - million judgment from the Commonwealth of Kentucky that ruled the site was in violation of its gambling laws.

FBI Director James B. Comey warned last year that law enforcement might be «going dark» because technology companies, including Apple and Google, are introducing ways for users to send encrypted messages by smartphones that can be unlocked only by the users, not by the companies.

The much - ballyhooed bitcoin law, developed and revised by the New York Department of Financial Services and its superintendent Benjamin Lawsky over the last year, was made official on Wednesday.

Brisbane - based law firm Shine Corporate has made its second acquisition in Western Australia, paying $ 13.3 million for personal injury specialist Bradley Bayly Legal, after paying a higher price last year for Stephen Browne Personal Injury Lawyers.

Over the last three years, New York and Maryland have told the company to drop the word «university» from its title, saying that using it violated state education laws.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.

In September, Bloomberg reported Russia's main intelligence agency told the company «it is obliged under Russian law passed last year to hand over keys allowing the government to decrypt any communications transmitted over it.»

Chief executive from 1993 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 till early last year, Piëch, now 78, infused VW with an ambition and drive that made the most of its political heft, presiding over a culture that was, if not above the law, then not above stretching it, by many accounts.

Late last year, officials in Utah moved to ban Zenefits; the state's insurance commissioner, Todd Kiser, sent a letter to the company calling its business model a violation of state laws.

Last year, while at an annual strategic China - U.S. dialogue in Beijing, Kerry expressed concern at Beijing's controversial law on foreign non-governmental organizations and about human rights problems in China.

And like people, they don't obey Moore's Law — You can't expect next year's batteries to last twice as long as this year's.

Last year, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a nonprofit advocacy group, studied the student loan debt relief industry.

After fighting unsuccessfully to reverse generic drug laws last year, and the sudden resignation of its CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher Interbrand.

Following CNN's report, several prominent Trump supporters slammed the special counsel or shifted attention onto Hillary Clinton and reports that her campaign had hired a law firm which retained Fusion GPS last year, the opposition - research firm that funded the so - called Steele dossier containing several salacious allegations about Trump's ties to Russia.

Uber's loss follows an earlier one last year where the Luxembourg - based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) classified the company as a transport service rather than a digital one, which stripped it of protections against undue national regulation that digital services enjoy under EU law.

Just last year, the federal government was championing a law that would have granted police sweeping new powers to monitor Canadians» e-mail and demand customer information from Internet service providers.

Excluding items, the company reported earnings of 78 cents per share, which included a 13 - cent impact from tax cuts signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump late last year.

A first wave of reform last year was designed to liberalize trades and professions as diverse as taxi driving, the law, baking and pharmacy, long protected from competition.

Wisconsin and Ohio last year passed laws stripping most public sector unions of collective bargaining rights.

A Los Angeles law firm, Berns Weiss, sued the IRS last year, complaining the agency's summons swept up one of the firm's partners, Jeffrey Berns, who held bitcoin at Coinbase, but had never sold it.

34 into law, the FCC can not ever make another set of rules that makes ISPs follow the same privacy guidelines it adopted last year.

Last year, the New York - based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, finding that the DMCA applied to infringement claims brought under federal and state law, including oldies songs.

The lawsuit, to be filed sometime late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California state capital, will take aim at three state laws passed last year that the Justice Department contends violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution.

He pointed to recent experiences with Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood, is now threatening to bring Sharia law to the country, and Libya, which has been plunged into chaos since the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi late last year.

Sheinfeld earned $ 423,000 in income last year as a Nabors director to supplement his income as counsel with the law firm of King & Spalding LLP.

Last year, North Dakota become the first state to make it legal for law enforcement to use drones with «less than lethal» weapons, like stun guns, pepper spray, rubber pullets, and beanbags.

That's why the 21st Century Cures Act, which aims to streamline the drug approval process, was overwhelmingly approved by Congress last year and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to rule out prosecuting people who sell cannabis, even when they do so in accordance with state laws.

Paul Weiss is the same corporate law firm that conducted last year's internal investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Roger Ailes, which resulted in the former Fox News chairman's resignation.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

When the Securities and Exchange Commission writes final rules for the laws that were passed last year in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, equity crowdfunding among non-professional investors will be legal in the U.S., too.

The framers, Gorsuch wrote last year, intended for lawmakers to make the laws, executives to execute them and judges to decipher their meaning.

Other states experiencing a rash of smartphone thefts have considered similar measures, and Minnesota passed a theft - prevention law last year.

Akhmetshin, a Russian - born lobbyist who since at least last year has been working with the lawyer, Veselnitskaya, to try to overturn a US law sanctioning Russians, confirmed his participation in the meeting to the Associated Press on Friday.

The U.S. and Papua New Guinea are the only countries among 185 nations and territories that hadn't imposed government - mandated laws requiring employers to pay mothers while on leave with their babies, according to a study released last year by the United Nations» International Labor Organization.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

A source at a law firm told the South China Morning Post that the State Administration of Taxation issued a consultation draft on the proposal at the end of last year, specifying that multinationals would have to disclose affiliated businesses and how intangible assets, labor and other internal cost transfers were made.»

Two earlier efforts were struck down by the courts as lacking adequate backing in law, until the most recent 2015 plan was upheld last year.

A coalition of conservative states historically opposed to the Affordable Care Act is suing the Trump administration in a move to end the nearly - decade old health law following last year's repeal of Obamacare's individual insurance mandate.

Silverthorn is actually the one leading the charge against Natale with the Law Society, having filed a complaint last year.

And while the city has attempted to use strict gun laws to curb shootings, about 60 % of guns used in shootings last year were purchased out of state.

The Irish movement draws inspiration from protests in Poland, where women took to the streets in huge numbers to successfully prevent their government from passing harsh abortion laws last year.