In partnership with Tilleke & Gibbons, OBG takes a look at Thailand’s legal system. Key points include revised investment incentives and new tax breaks for foreign companies, as well as the impact of new free trade agreements. Darani Vachanavuttivong, Co-Managing Partner and Managing Director of Intellectual Property (IP) at Tilleke & Gibbins, offers a viewpoint on the importance of IP rights.
Legal Framework
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Chapter | Legal Framework from The Report: Thailand 2012
Located in the heart of South-east Asia, Thailand combines an ancient Buddhist culture with an emerging industrial economy. It is the only South-east Asian country never to have been colonised, and the monarchy dates back to the 14th century.
With some of the fastest-growing free trade zones in the region, Ras Al Khaimah has witnessed impressive economic expansion and diversification across key industries in recent years, and is on its way to becoming an important investment destination in the Gulf
Interviews & Viewpoints | John Leahy, Partner, Leahy Lewin Nutley Sullivan Lawyers, on the origin of the legal code from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
Investors in Papua New Guinea from common law countries will find the country’s legal system both familiar and intriguing. It is similar to the Westminster system, albeit with its own characteristics, such as a modern written constitution with a large contingent of absolute and qualified rights. PNG has been developing its own common law since...
Articles & Analysis | Conducting business: An overview of the present legal environment from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR POWERS: There are three levels of government in Papua New Guinea, the national, provincial and local governments. The Constitution and the Organic Law on Provincial Government and Local Level Government (Organic Law) regulate the lawmaking powers of the national, provincial and local...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Gibson Geroro, Associate, Leahy Lewin Nutley Sullivan Lawyers, on the significance of the judiciary from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
Over the past 36 years since gaining independence, Papua New Guinea’s judiciary has faced numerous challenges in the country’s constitutional development. Time and again, such challenges have been met, and the judiciary has not ignored its responsibility to administer fair and unbiased justice.