International
Banking
Learning
from financial regulation's mistakes - June
The G-20 meeting in London earlier this year set the direction for
reforming the regulation of financial services to prevent a
recurrence of the present crisis. Still to come is the hard work of
hammering out the details, which will determine if a new regulatory
system can succeed - without imposing excessive costs or triggering
unintended consequences. - McKinsey
Quarterly website
Company
Law
King
III
Shareholder
code will improve governance - 13 July
An Institutional shareholder code, which would encourage institutional
shareholders to engage more actively with companies, would be launched
with the King 3 report on corporate governance in September, Lindie
Engelbrecht, the chief executive of the Institute of Directors, said on
Friday. The decision to write a code that addresses the crucial role
played by institutional shareholders in corporate governance is a response
to criticisms levelled at the early drafts of the King 3 report. - Business
Report website
Human
Rights
How
old is too old to become a mother? - 16 July
When it comes to motherhood, how old is too old? Fertility experts
and ethicists re-examined that question yesterday after hearing that
a 69-year-old Spanish mother died Saturday, leaving behind
2-year-old twins conceived with a younger woman's eggs and donated
sperm. Maria del Carmen Bousada is believed to have been the world's
oldest new mother. She gave birth in December 2006, shortly before
her 67th birthday, after telling a clinic in Los Angeles she was 55.
This week in London, 73-year-old Jenny Brown startled the medical
world by saying she was seeking in-vitro fertilization. - The
Star website
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Criminal Court
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