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Insider Trading

                                                       As the business world continues to expand in global markets, trading of shares, bonds derivatives and whatnot continues to increase. Here comes a trading that has received considerable interest in recent years called insider trading. The purpose of this work is to elucidate on what Insider trading encompasses. According to Black's law dictionary , insider trading is defined as the use of material non-public information in trading the shares of a company by a corporate insider or other person who owes a fiduciary duty to the company. It is a criminal offense which occurs when an individual makes a ( securities trade) due to material non-public information about a company. Insider trading is one of the very few crime that one can commit accidentally in the capital markets. For example,...

REVENGE PORN: IS IT CRIMINAL OR NOT?

REVENGE PORN: IS IT CRIMINAL OR NOT?                                           source “… private sexual images or films showing a particular person that are put on the internet by a former partner of that person, as an attempt to punish or harm them.” The incessant re-occurrence of revenge porn in this age of social media calls for more awareness as to the rights of the victims and the consequences of such actions to the offenders. One of the many important roles of Law in a society is protecting and ensuring the rights of people in the given society. Likewise, to regulate the behavior of members of the society. As such, Section 37 of the 1999 constitution guarantees one of such rights, which is the right to privacy, providing that, “the privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed.” The mora...