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That law shortened the statute of limitations after which charges are time-barred, a provision that directly benefited Mr Berlusconi.
ECONOMIST: Italy's prime minister and the law
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If a crime took place several years ago, notes Ms Powell, a Greek court may regard it as time-barred and decline to extradite, even though other EU countries would count it as still prosecutable.
ECONOMIST: Extradition
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The cases were ruled to be time-barred.
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But under RICO, as long as the last predicate act in furtherance of the alleged scheme occurred within five years of the date the indictment was handed up, otherwise time-barred offenses can be used as RICO predicates as well.
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The seven-time world champion is barred from testing the 2009 Ferrari as part of the new Formula One rules for the season, but has had a run out at their Maranello center in the 2007 car.
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Banned from baseball amid World Series fixing and gambling scandals, White Sox great "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the league's all-time hits leader Pete Rose are barred from even being considered.
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The fear, though, is that China will in time be able to buy high-tech, often dual-use, equipment now barred to it, as well as gaining more leverage in negotiating with other suppliers notably Russia as a result of having better access to European ones.
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Companies could be barred from using rolling contracts - where the contract is renewed each day so that at any given time directors have a fixed notice period to serve - to get around limits on the length of time they may serve.
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