Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

According to Michael E. Porter, “Every firm is a collection of activities that are performed to design, produce, market, deliver, and support its product” (value activities). These consume resources and are linked together in processes.

We observe a trend to extensive (over-)regulation of corporate activity, increased application and enforcement of legal provisions as well as fines for compliance violations, some of which threaten the very existence of companies. As a result of these trends, legal issues are becoming a key concern for the management of companies. Due to the ever-increasing regulatory reach, companies and their management are confronted with a creeping juridification of business decisions, organisation and processes. The associated problems for companies are multifaceted and complex.

The authorities responsible for the region of Azores, a Portuguese archipelago, imposed a mandatory quarantine of 14 days on arrival in the region, unlike the rest of the country where there is no mandatory quarantine. This region has been spared in this pandemic, with a very small number of cases - only 179 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, 144 recovered and 16 dead.

A working group of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) decided to draft a legislative amendment to the Portuguese Nationality Law. This will be done by adding a requirement for a mandatory legal residence in Portugal for a period of 2 years for all descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews.

In times of crisis, like the one we are currently experiencing, it seems that there are people who gain the ability to have more imagination. And the biggest problem is that this extra imagination ends up harming everyone but the author of the idea.