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Kazakhstan Law News Digest for December 2022 – January 2023

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Key Kazakhstan legal developments for the last two months and clarifications from the state authorities, case law news and legal publications have been discussed by our team.

I. Legislative News

Environment

  • The Parliament has amended the Administrative Offences Code to strengthen administrative liability for environmental offenses. Most notably, a new corpus of administrative offence was introduced in Article 380 1. Violation of protection regime of specially protected natural territories. This shall be effective from 5 March 2023.

Subsoil Use

  • The Ministry of Energy has approved the Rules and Requirements for Equipping Production Facilities of Petroleum Supply Points with Control Metering
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North Carolina makes changes to new abortion law days before enforcement

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RALEIGH, NC –

North Carolina Republican legislators rolled out on Thursday adjustments to the state’s new abortion restrictions that are set to take effect in days, addressing some provisions that litigation seeking to block the law’s enforcement calls are confusing and inconsistent.

GOP senators said the changes offered on the Senate floor were small, designed to affirm the intent of the measure enacted last month over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto that in part would ban starting July 1 nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

“We very much see it as something that is technical and clarifying,” Sen.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells law students ‘Survivor’ offers helpful lessons

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Jackson, the court’s first Black female justice, is coming to the end of her first term on the court. The justices are done hearing arguments for the term and are expected to issue all their remaining opinions by the end of June before going on summer break. Major decisions on affirmative action and President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan have yet to be announced.

In her address, Jackson described “Survivor,” in which contestants are deposited in a remote tropical location and undertake challenges in the hopes of ultimately winning $1 million, as “great fun to watch.” But she also

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Pakistani transgender activists to appeal the Shariah court ruling against laws aimed at protecting them

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights.

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2018 to secure the fundamental rights of transgender Pakistanis. It ensures their access to legal gender recognition, among other rights.

Many Pakistanis have entrenched beliefs on gender and sexuality and transgender people are often considered outcasts. Some are forced into begging, dancing and even prostitution to earn money. They also live in fear of attacks.

The

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Moving out of the family Home after Separation

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It is a question that virtually all separating couples will ask at some point: if we are no longer a couple, who should live where? More particularly clients want to know if moving out of the family home will impact the settlement of the property before their divorce or separation is finalised.

Should one of us move out? Should I buy a new property? What happens if we have an investment property together? Does it matter if my name is on the title? Who pays the mortgage if only one party moves out? Should we sell our property? What if

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‘You seem to be … misrepresenting the law’

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  • Classified document leak ‘awkward’ for US relationship with Ukraine

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  • Local NAACP president calls expulsion of Tennessee lawmakers a ‘political lynching’

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  • How the Texas mifepristone abortion pill case could end up in Supreme Court

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  • Full Panel: Biden says ‘I plan’ to run but poll shows Democrats aren’t enthusiastic

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  • Full Panel: ‘What is happening in Tennessee … is Jim Crow’

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  • Meet the Press Minute – Trump defends his reputation with women in 1999: ‘I am certainly controversial’

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Windsor landlords protest rental licensing pilot project

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It was a quiet yet passionate protest in front of the city hall Tuesday as about 100 people showed up to share their objection to the city’s Rental Licensing Bylaw.

“A criminal records check. I’ve been a landlord for 30 years in this city. I’m getting a criminal record check?” property owner Diane Chauvin questioned.

Under the city’s new bylaw, a criminal records check is necessary for landlords in wards one and two in order to obtain a Residential Rental License. The fee, plus inspections and work needed could cost over $1,000.

“We are against this by-law because the city

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