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Pride Month 2023
Over one third of LGBTIQ+ people feel they need to hide who they are at work, and a fifth feel that being LGBTIQ+ limits their job opportunities, according to a recent Stonewall survey.
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“No consent” letters regime reaffirmed: Appeal of Tam Sze Leung case
In 2022, we issued a legal update on the case of Tam Sze Leung & Anor v Commissioner of Police [2021] HKCFI 3118 (the CFI Decision), where the Court of First instance (CFI) held that the longstanding practice of the use of “Letters of No Consent” (LNCs) by the Police to informally “freeze” suspicious bank accounts (the No Consent Regime) is unlawful (see here ). As we predicted, the CFI Decision has been challenged by the Commissioner of the Police (the Commissioner) and has now been overturned by the Court of Appeal in [2023] HKCA 537.
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Updates on the long-awaited amendments to the Antimonopoly Law
In August 2022, the Antimonopoly Law was revised for the first time since the law was enacted in 2007. The revisions are light-touch, leaving the key features of the Antimonopoly Law intact, with only a limited expansion in the scope of the law.
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Women at sea: What you don’t see
Nina Varumo is a freelance portrait and documentary photographer based in Stockholm. A recent project of hers Kvinnor till sjöss (‘Women at sea’) is on ongoing photo series highlighting the working life of female seafarers in order to change the stereotypical image of what and who is a seafarer.
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“Double materiality”: What does it mean for non-financial reporting?
Companies have been publicly reporting on their financial performance for over a hundred years. However, they are increasingly having to make public non-financial disclosures relating to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters as a result of rules, laws and regulations issued by stock exchanges, governments and regulators worldwide.
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