Big Changes to Residential Housing Laws in California: SB567 and AB12

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Over the last 5 years or so, we’ve seen major changes in the California residential landlord tenant world, including one of the most impactful changes to California residential landlord tenant law in recent memory – the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (“TPA”). As discussed in previous publications, the TPA created statewide rent control and just…

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Property Law

A Dutch Merricks? Amsterdam Court of Appeal rules on fundamentals of class actions in TPC v Oracle and Salesforce

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Class actions in which damages can be awarded on a collective basis are still a relatively new phenomenon in Europe, with the UK, Portuguese and Dutch opt-out collective action regimes seen as frontrunners. It has dawned on policymakers and lawyers alike that damages can be suffered across a broad and disparate group of victims, which…

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A Legal Perspective on the Term “Lethal” – EJIL: Talk!

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The deliberations of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) underscore the critical importance of legally defining or characterising the term “lethal” in the context of autonomous weapon systems (AWS). The Report of the Secretary General on LAWS stated that some “States considered the…

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on the pre-contractual duty to analyse the consumer’s creditworthiness when granting credit – Official Blog of UNIO

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Mariana Marques (Master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho) ▪            Introduction In practice, financial institutions often grant credit without analysing the consumer’s creditworthiness. In most cases, credit is granted without analysing any variant that could compromise the borrowers’ financial capacity – and this is particularly prevalent…

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Ontario’s Bill 149: Key Changes Impacting Employers & Workers

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Bill 149 further burdens employers, provides more rights to employees On March 21, 2024, Ontario’s employment landscape witnessed significant changes with the enactment of Bill 149, the Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149). This comprehensive legislation introduces amendments to various statutes, including the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), impacting employers across the province….

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Easements for Road Use – When the Owner Can Can Make Improvements on the Unused Portion of the Easement — California Real Estate Lawyers Blog — September 26, 2022

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Easements for road purposes are common in California. But what happens when the width of the granted easement is far greater than the road actually used by the easement holder? In a decision out of Napa the court held that a deed granting a nonexclusive easement of a specified width does not, as a matter…

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Property Law

What Capacity is Required to Enter into a Settlement Agreement? 

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In Book v. Cociardi1, the Court of Appeal firmly rejected the argument that in any personal injury case where the plaintiff has allegedly sustained a permanent cognitive injury, they should undergo a capacity assessment to manage property and personal care before signing minutes of settlement. The Court of Appeal held that “this is not the…

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Does a mother have an obligation to leave her deceased daughter’s share of the estate to the daughter’s husband?

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There are so many new, interesting cases these days that I can’t possibly blog about all of them. However, this one caught my eye because it addresses an issue that I hear about pretty often. This is the case of MacCallum v. Langille Estate, which was recently dealt with by the Nova Scotia Court of…

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New Issue ECHR Law Review

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The second issue of the year of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (Vol. 5, issue 2). The issue contains one editorial, three guest editorials, two research articles and four book reviews. The guest editorials are devoted to the relationship between the ECHR and the ICCPR and the ECtHR and the United Nations Human…

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European Law

Effective Pricing in Spectrum Auction Design: Optimal Auctions out of Thin Air

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The promise of 5G Fifth-generation wireless systems – commonly known as 5G – are a big leap forward for mobile communications.  The innovations connected to 5G could be worth around $13.2 trillion over the next 15 years for the industry and public sector.  By 2025, deploying the new technology could generate €213 billion in revenue…

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