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In a major step forward for the country, Timor-Leste’s Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) unveiled the Handbook on Investigation of Gender-Based Violence Offenses for the Public Prosecution Service on 31 May 2024.
The Consolidated Guidelines expand the baseline regulatory framework under Circular Letter No. 2022-04. It also provides the licensing and documentary requirements, as well as other guidelines, for takaful window operators in the Philippines.
Republic Act No. 11995, the Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS) Act, establishes an internationally recognized environmental and economic accounting framework. The law's accounting framework includes official statistics on natural capital depletion, degradation and restoration; environmental protection expenditures; land, air and water pollution and quality; and environmental damages.
The WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge aims to promote the efficacy, transparency and quality of the patent system with regard to genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources. It also aims to prevent patents from being granted erroneously for inventions that are not novel or inventive with regard to genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources.
The Model Forest Act Initiative gained significant traction at the recent 19th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests held in New York City (6-10 May 2024).
ADB's Law and Policy Reform Program, together with the United Nations Environment Programme, presented the Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) to UN member states, permanent observers and regional and international organizations at the 19th Session of the UN Forum on Forests in New York City.
On 4-5 May 2024, the ADB Office of the General Counsel's Law and Policy Reform Program held the Armenia Arbitration Judicial Colloquium in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The colloquium helped build participants' capacity to apply international and Armenian legal approaches to arbitration, using a practical approach in which participants grappled with scenarios based on actual cases.
The principal question arising in the case is whether or not the approach adopted in Re Guy Kwok Hung Lam [2023] HKCFA 9 (“Guy Lam CFA”) should be applied in this case. In Guy Lam CFA, the court dismissed a bankruptcy petition on the ground that the dispute over the petition debt should be determined in the New York court in accordance with the exclusive jurisdiction agreement between the parties. On the other hand, the company in this case raised a cross-claim against the petitioner which is being arbitrated pursuant to an arbitration agreement between the parties.
At issue is the approach that should be adopted by the court in winding up proceedings where there is an agreement between the parties to refer their dispute relating to the petition debt to arbitration. It is contended by the Company that the approach regarding exclusive jurisdiction clauses in bankruptcy proceedings laid down by the Court of Final Appeal in Re Guy Kwok Hung Lam [2023] HKCFA 9 should be applied by analogy to this situation.
On 20 April 2024 in Tbilisi, the Asian Development Bank's Law and Policy Reform Program and Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program joined efforts with the Georgia Revenue Service, Digital Standards Initiative, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in hosting more than 50 government officials and private sector representatives for a discussion on the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records.