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The recent Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board decision of the United States Supreme Court (see an earlier blog post on this case available here ) gives a wonderful occasion to show a major difference between this country...
One of the difficult administrative law questions facing most legal systems today is the tradeoff between independence and accountability. Last Monday, June 28, the US Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in the case of Free Enterprise Fund v. Public...
On March 9, 2010, the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) handed down a very interesting judgment regarding the required degree of independence of the authorities responsible for monitoring compliance with Directive 95/46/EC "on the protection...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (08-861), an important separation of powers case. In 2002, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which created the Public Company Accounting...