AMARJIT CIVIL SERVICE PREPARATION Prof. Jayanth R. Varma's Financial Markets Blog The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has an interesting judgement (h/t June Rhee) upholding the human rights of those guilty of insider trading (The judgement itself is available only in French but the Press Release is available in English). Though the fines and penalties imposed by the Italian Companies and Stock Exchange Commission (Consob) were formally defined as administrative in nature under Italian law, the ECHR ruled that “the severity of the fines imposed on the applicants meant that they were criminal in nature.”. As such, the ECHR found fault with the procedures followed by Consob. The ECHR ruling that the Consob fines were a criminal penalty brought into play the important principle that a person cannot be tried for the same offence twice. It is important to recognize that the ECHR is not objecting to the substance of the insider trading statutes and the need to penalize the alleged offences. Posted at 11:03 on Tue, 15 Apr 2014 View/Post Comments (2) permanent link
The people who choose to be alone at Christmas Christmas Day is traditionally seen as an event to be spent around loved ones. But what about those who want to spend it alone, asks Ross Davies. Some would say there is no more poignant festive moment than to hear of a Christmas spent alone. Take last year's story of James Gray, the London-based Irish pensioner who placed an advert in the Irish Post in a bid to find someone to share the holiday with, having spent nine consecutive Christmases on his own. Or the report earlier this year of an unnamed widow, who hired an entire Devon pub so as to host a Christmas lunch for herself and 50 strangers also expecting to spend the day alone. Christmas can be a difficult time for many, especially in the face of ubiquitous reminders that it is the season to be jolly - not to mention the financial pressures that come with it. Last December, the Samaritans are said to have received 244,000 calls from people suffering from depression and stress across Britain and Ireland. Alone at Christmas...
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Sunderlal Bahuguna, the defender of Himalayas, turns 89: Some facts on Chipko movement : Listicles: Microfacts "Embrace the trees andSave them from being felled; The property of our hills, Save them from being looted." Sunderlal Bahuguna, one of the people behind the start of the Chipko Movement, was born on January 9, 1927. The man who has been fighting for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, and the first person to join the Chipko Movement, celebrates his 89th birthday today. On his 89th birthday today, let's know what the Chipko Movement or the forest conservation movement was: The Chipko movement had started in the early 18th century in Rajasthan. Interested in General Knowledge and Current Affairs?