Author : Great Britain: Office of Fair Trading
Publisher : Stationery Office/Tso
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780102938456
Covers the 12-month period from 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006
Author : Great Britain. Office of Fair Trading
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780102967319
Covers the 12-month period from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010
Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780102954548
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has improved its operations following recommendations on maintaining competition in markets made by the National Audit Office and Committee of Public Accounts in 2005 and 2006. It now needs to concentrate its efforts on strengthening the skills and experience of its staff at key management grades, and be clearer on how long it expects its investigations will take. The OFT is now directing its work to areas that have the most impact, though this refocus on higher priority cases has led to a perception that the OFT is less interested in smaller markets, with a risk that its deterrent effect will be reduced in these markets. The OFT has taken steps to address this perception, launching investigations into more local markets such as in construction and bus transport. The time taken to process high profile cases has been reduced by introducing better project management and more flexible ways of working, including using bigger teams and temporary legal staff. The OFT has also brought criminal charges in two cartel cases for the first time under the Enterprise Act, one of which to date has resulted in criminal convictions. The OFT recognises that some of its cases are still taking too long. The OFT operates in a competitive labour market and still continues to face challenges in attracting and retaining talented staff. The OFT has provided project management and leadership training to its staff, but it needs to sustain and increase this work in order to continue to recruit and retain staff at key management grades.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780215036841
The Committee's report examines the work of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) as part of a programme of short inquiries into the non-departmental public bodies associated with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly the DTI). A NAO report (HCP 593, session 2005-06; ISBN 0102936161) published in November 2005 highlighted three key areas of concern about the OFT and its approach to its work, focusing on making best use of its resources; improving the management of investigations; and improving the measurement of its achievements and the communication of its work. The Committee commends the OFT for its positive response to address these concerns, and although it is too soon to make a balanced assessment of the results, they are encouraged by the evidence of progress so far. The report also examines issues relating to staffing constraints, the merger referral threshold, the OFT's role in voluntary industry codes of practice, and the OFT's Consumer Direct telephone service.
Author : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Nicholas Ryder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317311736
This book offers a commentary on the responses to white collar crime since the financial crisis. The book brings together experts from academia and practice to analyse the legal and policy responses that have been put in place following the 2008 financial crisis. The book looks at a range of topics including: the low priority and resources allocated to fraud; EU regulatory efforts to fight financial crime; protecting whistleblowers in the financial industry; the criminality of the rogue trader; the evolution of financial crime in cryptocurrencies; and the levying of financial penalties against banks and corporations by the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission.
Author : Great Britain: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780101677424
This publication sets out the Government's response to the Committee's report (HC 574, session 2005-06 (ISBN 0215027590) on the eighth annual report by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ('Human Rights Annual Report 2005', Cm. 6606, ISBN 0101660626). Issues discussed in the report include: the international legal framework and the work of international institutions; the war against terrorism and treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition and the use of information derived from torture, the situation in Iraq and the trial of Saddam Hussein; the arms trade and military assistance, and corporate social responsibility. Amongst the Government's responses, it disagrees with the concerns the Committee raised over i) the fact that the Minister responsible for human rights issues is also the Minister of State for Trade, roles that the Committee found to be often contradictory; and ii) the decision to subsume human rights work into the more general category of sustainable development.
Author : Great Britain. Office of Fair Trading
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN :
Author : David Gerber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199652007
A key factor in the emerging relationship between law and economic globalization is how global competition now shapes economies and societies. Competition law is provided by those players that have sufficient 'power' to apply their laws transnationally. This book examines this important and controversial aspect of globalization.
Author : Nuarrual Hilal Md. Dahlan
Publisher : UUM Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9675311665
Abandoned housing projects is one the major problems in housing industry in Peninsular Malaysia. The reasons leading to this problem are many. This catastrophe has caused multifarious problems to the stakeholders, particularly the purchasers who become the aggrieved parties. To date, there is no effective and once-and-for-all means to face the problems of abandoned housing projects. One of the factors which causes abandonment of housing projects in Peninsular Malaysia, is the lack of political will on part of the government to adopt an affirmative better housing delivery system such as the ‘full build then sell system’ and the introduction of a housing development insurance to face the problems of housing abandonment. This book provides in-depth analyses of the terms and conditions of the statutory standard sale and purchase agreements as enshrined in Schedules G, H, I and J of the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989. The objective of this book, among others, is to identify the weaknesses of the terms of the agreements, if any, which may have contributed to the problem of abandoned housing projects and their consequential troubles. As comparative analyses, the terms and conditions of the sale and purchase agreements as applicable and enforced in the Republic of Singapore and New South Wales, Australia, are chosen. The purpose of these comparative analyses is to find the terms and conditions in these foreign jurisdictions’ agreements which can be learned and adopted in the statutory standard sale and purchase agreements (Schedules G, H, I and J). It is also for the betterment of the Malaysian housing industry as a whole, and to protect the interests of the stakeholders, in particular the purchasers as against the problems of housing abandonment and its consequences.
