Legal News

BVI Companies Allowed to List in Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Dec. 17 – Companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are now allowed to list in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The HKSE has agreed to accept applications from companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands...

ACLU Calls On Federal Judge To Levy Sanctions Against Virgin Islands Officials For Failing To Improve Jail Conditions
ST. THOMAS, VI ? The American Civil Liberties Union today will ask a federal judge to enact additional sanctions against top government officials in the Virgin Islands for failing to improve the conditions at the Virgin Islands Criminal Justice Complex (CJC), despite standing court orders.

IRS Loses Major Virgin Islands Tax Shelter Case
Illinois car dealer James Auffenberg was acquitted on Wednesday by a federal district court jury in the Virgin Islands of all tax fraud charges. United States v. Auffenberg, No. 2007-0047 (D...

Area Codes - North American Numbering Plan (NANPA)
NANPA is an integrated telephone numbering plan serving the United States, its territories, and 18 other North American countries; Canada, Bermuda, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat,...

MPs must rule on assisted suicide, says Director of Public Prosecutions
Any reform of the law on assisting suicide is a matter for Parliament, not prosecutors, the Director of Public Prosecutions has told The Times.

British High Court rejects claim that aid-in-dying is a basic human right
A British woman has lost her battle in the High Court, where she had sought clarification in the law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, 45, who has multiple sclerosis, wanted a guarantee from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that...

Fuel Surcharges
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic agree to $200 million price fixing class action settlement.

Asbestos Cleanup
Penn. Electric Co. pays part of $77,498 settlement in environmental lawsuit.

Virgin Atlantic Flight
Makes Emergency Landing

Sunwest Management Inc.
allegedly misled residents about staff and daily care.

Investor Fraud
Company president and director Gregory William Rivers to pay $10,000 shareholder fraud settlement.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.