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France constitutional court approves same-sex marriage bill

France's Constitutional Council on Friday approved a same-sex marriage bill. The legislation was approved by parliament last month, but former president Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement party filed a legal challenge. The court rejected the challenge but did clarify that the right of same-sex couples to adopt does not establish a "right to a child." French President Francois Hollande, a supporter of the legislation, is expected to sign the bill into law next week.

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After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters.

Amazon will follow search giant Google, which attended another grilling by parliament's Public Affairs Committee (PAC) over its tax affairs on Thursday. A Reuters report earlier this month raised questions over Google's earlier assertions that its UK-based staff don't sell to customers.

Over the past six years, Amazon has paid around $9 million in income tax on over $23 billion of sales to British clients, because it says it operates a single European business out of Luxembourg, rather than a multinational structure of independent subsidiaries in different countries, and should therefore pay tax in Luxembourg.

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Arbitration and the Power Sector in Brazil

Gilberto Giusti, José Roberto Oliva Junior and Ricardo Dalmaso Marques

According to Gilberto Giusti, José Roberto Oliva Junior and Ricardo Dalmaso Marques of Pinheiro Neto Advogado, the arbitrators and the lawyers defending the interests of the litigants in the power sector must have expertise in or at least deeper technical knowledge of the matter in controversy. "Experience has shown that extrajudicial resolution of contractual disputes between several power market agents is the mechanism that better meets the need for greater expertise or at least greater knowledge of the matter by arbitrators", assert the article´s authors.

Brazil Without Casinos

Stanley Martins Frasão

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