A quick note on Playtech Software ea v Games Global Ltd ea [2024] EWHC 3264 (Ch) in which Thompsell J discussed ia Rome II in an application for service out (of the jurisdiction). As confirmed by Arnold LJ in Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Co Ltd v Celgard, LLC [2020] EWCA Civ 1293 [51] as a matter…
Just this past week, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was on the receiving end of a Federal Court decision that I would characterize as more than a little embarrassing for the Commissioner. In a nutshell, the Commissioner took Facebook to court over the Cambridge Analytica incident and lost, big time. You may…
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Written by Pieter Baert. Equality between men and women is one of the key foundational principles of the European Union. Despite much progress, however, significant gaps persist between men and women regarding employment opportunities and income levels. Taxation can either mitigate or exacerbate these gender inequalities. On 13 January 2025, the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax…
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Le 11 août dernier, la Cour d’appel du Québec a confirmé un jugement de la Cour du Québec ayant déclaré un employeur coupable de négligence criminelle causant la mort d’un de ses travailleurs. Résumé de la décision CFG Construction inc. c. R., 2023 QCCA 1032 Le travailleur, Albert Paradis a tragiquement perdu la vie le 11 septembre 2012…
From an email from the firm of Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP: “The New York City Council recently enacted Local Law 24 of 2024 – The Fair Chance for Housing Act (the “Act”) – which makes it unlawful for an owner of real estate in New York City to refuse to rent, lease, to…
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The Bouskoura case (C-387/24 PPU), lodged on 4 June 2024 and ultimately addressed by the ECJ on 4 October 2024, brings about significant insights at a point of critical juncture between immigrants’ fundamental rights and procedural matters as regarding asylum seeking and return decisions. The dispute in question involves a third-country national (‘TCN’) who appealed…
IP lawyers in the ICANN community have come out swinging against proposed rules that would require them to come clean about who they work for, rules that are supported by registrars and governments. A proposed policy that would force lawyers to disclose the identities of their clients when they participate in policy-making would violate their…
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As we enter 2025, we look back on five important decisions that made the news in 2024. Here is the the first case. On October 11, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada released two decisions, Aquino v Bondfield Construction Co. (Aquino) and Scott v Golden Oaks Enterprises Inc (Golden Oaks), concerning the liability of corporations…
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Radical-right parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024. Vicente Valentim argues this success owes much to the normalisation of their views. Last year was a year full of elections, with almost half of the world’s population being called to the polls. In many of these elections, the radical right made significant gains….
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“The brutal truth is that nothing is likely to trip up the Online Safety Bill.” So began a blogpost on which I was working just over a month ago. Fortunately, it was still unfinished when Boris Johnson imploded for the final time, the Conservative leadership election was triggered, and candidates – led by Kemi Badenoch…
