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  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Canada [official website] ruled [judgment] Thursday that a term of good faith performance is now an implied requirement in all contractual agreements. The court found that Canadian courts' resistance to ruling on the issue of good faith performance in contracts has created an "unsettled and incoherent body of law ... which is difficult to analyze." The court laid out two steps to resolving the issue:   The first step is to acknowledge that good faith contractual performance is a general organizing principle of the common law of contract which underpins and informs the various rules in which the common law, in various situations and types of relationships, recognizes obligations of good faith contractual performance. The second is to recognize, as a further manifestation of this organizing principle of…

  La Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo ha abierto una causa contra los ex presidentes de la Junta de Andalucía Manuel Chaves y José Antonio Griñán por el caso de los ERE presuntamente irregulares.   Con el informe favorable de la Fiscalía, la Sala de lo Penal del Supremo ha asumido también la investigación sobre los exconsejeros José Antonio Viera y Gaspar Zarrías, en su calidad de diputados del Congreso como hace con Chaves,; y de la también exconsejera de Andalucía Mar Moreno, en su calidad de senadora, como hace con el expresidente José Antonio Griñán. Respecto a las otras personas no aforadas, ha acordado que el procedimiento continúe en el órgano competente.   El Supremo, que ha nombrado a Alberto Jorge Barreiro instructor del caso, ha hecho público este…

  Britain’s first judge at the international criminal court (ICC) has said he fears it may become “institutionally lopsided” as the result of changes proposed by the court’s registrar.   In a public lecture delivered at Chatham House last week, Sir Adrian Fulford, who served at the court from 2003 to 2012, expressed concerns that defendants and victims would be left insufficiently represented while very considerable power remained with the prosecutor.   The judge, who now sits as Lord Justice Fulford in the court of appeal for England and Wales, said the department that represented victims at the court had been his brainchild. So was the section that supported defence counsel. Both were set up in the early days of the ICC when its judges were drafting the court’s regulations.   The…

  Until Republicans won control of the Senate in midterm elections, Loretta Lynch was an ideal candidate to serve as deputy to the next U.S. Attorney General.   As the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, Lynch has developed a reputation for being tough on terrorism, cyber crimes and public corruption. She also has a deep knowledge of the Justice Department and a low-key style that wouldn’t upstage her boss.   Then President Barack Obama’s first choice to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder withdrew from consideration and the Democrats took a drubbing at the polls on Nov. 4. Suddenly, the traits that made Lynch the favorite for second-in-command vaulted her into the top spot.   So the 55-year-old native of Greensboro, North Carolina, became a part of history yesterday when Obama made…

O Instituto de Direito Administrativo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - IDAERJ, em parceria com a Procuradoria Geral do Estado, realizou, nos dias 5 e 6/11, o VII Congresso de Direito Administrativo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, que homenageou este ano a memória do jurista espanhol Eduardo García de Enterría (1923-2013), presidente de honra do IIEDE.O evento, prestigiado por  renomados mestres do mundo jurídico, teve a participação do argentino Juan Carlos Cassagne (membro da Academia Internacional de Direito Comparado, com sede em Paris) e do espanhol Germán Fernández Farreres (diretor do departamento de Direito Administrativo da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Complutense de Madri).           Juan Carlos Cassagne (esq), Fábio Medina Osório e o catedrático espanhol Germán Fernández Farreres. Foto: Jorge Pinheiro (Divulgação).   Em tributo a Eduardo García de…

  El ministro de Justicia, Rafael Catalá, se ha reunido este jueves con los representantes de las comunidades autónomas con competencias en Justicia, a quiénes ha asegurado colaboración para acometer las reformas de la Justicia esta legislatura. En este sentido, ha asegurado que ante el poco tiempo que resta de legislatura,se priorizan la reforma de la Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial y de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal, de la que se modificarán sólo aspectos puntuales. Así mismo, ha explicado que el trabajo del ministerio se está centrando en estas reformas.   En cuanto a la reforma de la Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial, la principal novedad del proyecto de ley que será aprobado por el Consejo de Ministros en las próximas semanasserá el mantenimiento de los partidos judiciales aunque se establecerán…

  The U.K.’s biggest banks face a probe into checking accounts and services for small- and medium-sized businesses as the U.K. antitrust regulator said the industry hasn’t done enough to open up the market.   The Competition and Markets Authority said there has been very little change in the market share of the four largest banks, which provide more than three-quarters of personal and business current accounts, according to an e-mailed statement.   “Effective competition in retail banking is critically important for individual bank customers, small- and medium-sized businesses, and the wider economy,” Alex Chisholm, the CMA’s chief executive officer, said today.   British lawmakers want to loosen the grip of Britain’s four biggest lenders -- Barclays Plc (BARC),HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA), Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) -- which…

  Britain’s first judge at the international criminal court (ICC) has said he fears it may become “institutionally lopsided” as the result of changes proposed by the court’s registrar.   In a public lecture delivered at Chatham House last week, Sir Adrian Fulford, who served at the court from 2003 to 2012, expressed concerns that defendants and victims would be left insufficiently represented while very considerable power remained with the prosecutor.   The judge, who now sits as Lord Justice Fulford in the court of appeal for England and Wales, said the department that represented victims at the court had been his brainchild. So was the section that supported defence counsel. Both were set up in the early days of the ICC when its judges were drafting the court’s regulations.   The…

Ouvi, certa vez, que os japoneses podem ser condenados à proibição do uso de aparelhos celulares. Uma solução bastante inventiva do ponto de vista do direito penal, não é mesmo? De fato, para algumas pessoas seria um suplício ter de se afastar do seu smartphone. Do lado de cá do mundo, nós outros costumamos associar a ideia das penas alternativas ao pagamento de cestas básicas. No próximo ano, completam-se 20 anos da Lei dos Juizados Especiais, norma que gerou o primeiro movimento de aplicação em massa de penas e medidas alternativas no Brasil. Estima-se que mais de 800 mil pessoas estejam cumprindo sanções dessa natureza. Outras 145 mil estão em prisão domiciliar. Pouco a pouco, sem alarido, as alternativas ao cárcere tornaram-se realidade. Obviamente, números dessa ordem trazem muitos problemas, a…

  Los presidentes de los diecisiete tribunales superiores de justicia han reivindicado este miércoles la Justicia como “factor clave para la regeneración de la democracia y del sistema de convivencia, afectado por el desaliento cívico y la desconfianza hacia las instituciones, derivada de la existencia de graves casos de corrupción”.   En una declaración aprobada al término de la reunión que bajo el título de “La nueva organización judicial” han mantenido esta semana en A Coruña, los presidentes de los TSJ consideran que “la reforma integral de la Administración de Justicia constituye una medida imprescindible para contribuir a alcanzar esa regeneración”.   Esa reforma, añaden, debe basarse en una nueva planta y demarcación judicial “más racional y eficiente” y en otro modelo procesal penal, “que dé respuesta satisfactoria a las nuevas formas de delincuencia que están socavando las…