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Australia: Prospectuses To Disclose 'Relevant' Criminal Convictions
May 01, 2011 - The Australian Securities and Investment Commission will require companies to disclose "relevant" criminal convictions in prospectuses under new guidelines just issued. The measure is aimed at ensuring new investors know exactly where their money is going without a deluge of paper and legalise. The inclusion of a criminal record for the first time is aimed obviously at crimes involving fraud or taking money as opposed to murder, which is arguably less bothersome from an investment perspective. The draft proposals are aimed at ensuring investors can understand the risks and rewards in simple English. If companies want to put more material in the prospectus, they are encouraged to direct readers to a web site to a...
Aviva (UK Insurance) Warns Against Risk of Criminal Records And Claim Rejections
May 01, 2011 - Home insurance policy holders should at all times inform their insurance company if any member of the household is found guilty of a criminal offen...
Council Dumps Criminal Record Check Fee
May 01, 2011 - Volunteers can rest a little easier. On April 26, Sooke (Canada) council voted to amend and give third reading to Bylaw No. 488 Fees Bylaw. Aft...
Straightline International Opens Office In Hong Kong
May 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein and Faheem Ebrahim, annouce the opening of a new Hong Kong office for Straightline International and The Background Investigator....
The Difference Between Great Britain And The United Kingdom
April 01, 2011 - The United Kingdom is made up of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its full name is the United Kingdom of Great B...
Northern Ireland's Criminal Records Service Reviewed
April 01, 2011 - Government management of criminal records is to be reviewed in Northern Ireland. Sunita Mason, the UK Government's adviser on the managemen...
Guide To Insurance With Criminal Convictions
April 01, 2011 - Getting insurance (UK) with criminal convictions can be difficult and expensive. The ABI and UNLOCK have teamed up to produce guidance to make...
Canadian Bankruptcy Case Link
April 01, 2011 - This link is provided Free By The Background Investigator This bankruptcy database contains a record of all bankruptcies and proposals filed in...
More News Of RCMP (CPIC) Criminal Record Check Backlogs Plus A Solution
April 01, 2011 - Straightline International Breaks Up RCMP delays With A Court Search Since last July requiring all fingerprints be sent electronically to Ottaw...
CPIC Searches Cause Grief for NAPBS Pre-employment Screening Companies
April 01, 2011 - Background Checks run through the CPIC (without fingerprints) will only return name matches. Many NAPBS member companies have written and talke...
Are You A Criminal? School Asks Parents
March 01, 2011 - Do you have a PC at home? How big is your house? What car do you drive? Do you have your tax returns in place? And most importantly, do you hav...
Are You A Criminal? School Asks Parents
March 01, 2011 - Do you have a PC at home? How big is your house? What car do you drive? Do you have your tax returns in place? And most importantly, do you hav...
Suicide Risk Rises After Criminal Encounters
March 01, 2011 - People who have had run-ins with the law, even if they were never jailed, show a higher risk of committing suicide, said a new study. The resea...
Driver Cleared By CRB Check Abused Child
March 01, 2011 - A man cleared in a background check had child abuse convictions and went on to abuse a child, it has emerged. The "vulnerable" child...
Record Number Of Foreigners In Nepal's Criminal Activities
March 01, 2011 - Nepal´s criminal records show cases of involvement of foreigners in criminal activities have spiked in recent years. Even a limited amoun...
Record 47 Japan Suspects Arrested Through Wiretapping In 2010
March 01, 2011 - A record 47 people were arrested in 2010 in investigations using authorized wiretaps into cases such as suspected illegal drug sales, a Japan Justi...
Chinese Make Up Lion's Share Of Foreign Wives In Korea
March 01, 2011 - Chinese women took up the largest portion of foreign wives married to Korean men in 2009, government data said. According to Statistics Korea, a to...
The Database State Is Alive And Well In UK
March 01, 2011 - The amount of data collected by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras has reached into the billions. A Freedom of Information reque...
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