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Swiss high court says Credit Suisse customer’s data cannot be given to US (update 2)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:29:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Decision says US request was not in line with tax agreement Tribunal confirms to GenevaLunch that decision was based on 1996 agreement Update 2 15:00 BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Administrative Court has struck a blow to US-Swiss tax administrative assistance discussions, ruling in favour of a Credit Suisse client who appealed a decision by [...]

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Anti-corruption group says Swiss need political contributions law

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:16:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s anti-corruption laws are good, but they should be strengthened, the government has been told by The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption, Greco. Two areas that need legal reinforcement are laws covering bribery of officials, particularly of foreign governments, and the Swiss political contributions system. Swiss political parties are [...]

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Geneva belt attack victim takes prince to court in Boston

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:35:29 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Silvano Orsi, who took a brother of the ruler (since 2004) of the UAE (United Arab Emirates) to court in Switzerland over a 2003 attack at La Reserve hotel, has filed a lawsuit against the brother, Falah bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, in Boston, in the US. The 43-year-old American lawsuit [...]

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Tribune de Genève fined for blogger’s libelous post

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:48:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Tribune de Genève was fined CHF1,500 for publishing a blog post written by Geneva councillor Eric Stauffer, as part of a court decision against Stauffer for defamy. The newspaper has appealed the decision, says Pierre Ruetschi, managing editor, citing legal precedents in other countries, arguing that a media that hosts [...]

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Swiss see 102 new int’l child kidnapping, visiting rights cases

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:16:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Swiss see 102 new int’l child kidnapping, visiting rights cases in 2010 18 children returned home to Switzerland Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Seven is the average age and in 2010 there were 147 of them at the centre of complaints: children who are kidnapped by one parent, or who have one parent refused visitation rights [...]

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Geneva confirms ready to compensate Qadaffi son, Tribune lashes out

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:34:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Swiss newspaper says canton condemning it without justice taking its course Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Canton Geneva late Wednesday at a press conference confirmed through its lawyer that it is ready to pay a fair sum to Hannibal Qadaffi, compensating him for moral damage because a state employee appears to have been involved in leaking [...]

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Alinghi trims its sails as court battles fade away

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:57:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – America’s Cup, the top international sailing event, may happen in Valencia after all, it appears, after months of legal battles between Alinghi and the challenger, BMW Oracle, threatened to sink the race. Remaining legal challenges, over such matters as Alinghi unilaterally setting the start time of the race at 10:06 Monday [...]

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Qadaffi son sues Geneva, newspaper

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:21:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The son of Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi, Hannibal, has acted on his earlier threats to sue the canton of Geneva, the Tribune de Genève newspaper and one of its reporters. The younger Qadaffi filed charges 17 December, the Tribune has learned, against the newspaper and its journalist for publishing in September [...]

Court clears Basel Deep Heat geologist

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:53:01 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The CEO of Geothermal Explorers, the company that was drilling as part of a Basel geothermal energy project called Deep Heat, has been cleared of wrongdoing by a court in the city. Charges were brought against Markus Haering after the company’s drilling appeared to provoke earthquakes in Basel in 2006 and [...]

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Aminona Russian Alpine resort faces WWF opposition

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:57:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The WWF Switzerland and the Swiss Fund for the Protection of Nature (FP) said Tuesday 8 December they have filed an appeal against the Aminona resort project near Crans-Montana in canton Valais, saying they “fear a fiasco for nature and the surrounding countryside, as well as for the region itself.” The [...]

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