Island Consol. v Grassi & Co., Certified Public Accountants PC 2025 NY Slip Op 30094(U) January 7, 2025 Supreme Court, New York County Docket Number: Index No. 451469/2023 Judge: Margaret A. Chan came as somewhat of a surprise to read. Not only did a statute of limitations defense in an accounting malpractice suit fail, but…
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During the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign frequently accused the Remain side of excessive negativity and scaremongering. Simona Dianová and Monika Brusenbauch Meislová examine what a dataset of public speeches can tell us about the realities of “Project Fear”. The 2016 Brexit referendum stands out in British political history as a campaign fraught with…
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What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition characterized by significant mood swings that include emotional highs, known as mania or hypomania, and lows, known as depression. These mood episodes can affect a person’s energy levels, activity, judgment, behavior, and ability to think clearly. During a manic phase, individuals may feel euphoric,…
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Dr. Benedikt Wolfers, M.A. & Sebastian Lutz-Bachmann, LL.M.* * Partners of the Law Firm Posser Spieth Wolfers & Partners in Berlin. Photo credit: Reinhold Möller, via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the Court of Justice decided a series of cases in relation to vehicle type approval law. On 21 November…
GoDaddy has agreed to roll out some pretty basic security measures and has been told to stop lying about how secure its hosting is, under an agreement with US regulators. It turns out that the company, while claiming that security “was at the core of everything we do”, was failing to do some pretty basic…
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The presumption of resulting trust and joint accounts When an adult child holds a joint account with their parent, there is a presumption that when the parent dies, the money in the account at the time of their death does not pass to the adult child by right of survivorship but is held in resulting…
Print this article By Daniel Thym, FZAA Research Centre Immigration & Asylum Law, Universität Konstanz, Audio version available here December 2024 may go down in history as a turning point of EU asylum law and policy. The newly appointed second von der Leyen Commission recognised, in a non-binding communication, that pushbacks may possibly be legal…
The Online Safety Bill, before the pause button was pressed, enjoyed a single day’s Commons Report stage debate on 12 July 2022. Several government amendments were passed and incorporated into the Bill. One of the most interesting additions is New Clause 14 (NC14), which stipulates how user-to-user providers and search engines should decide whether user content…
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As a loyal policyholder, you expect your insurance provider to prioritize your safety, security, and trust. Yet recent allegations against Allstate and its subsidiary, Arity, paint a troubling picture of invasive business practices that betray consumer confidence. If the claims within the Texas lawsuit 1 are accurate, Allstate has been secretly collecting sensitive driver data…
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Written on behalf of Peter McSherry Most Canadians are aware that they are entitled to be free from discrimination in their place of work. The federal and provincial Human Rights Tribunals hear complaints of discrimination on any enumerated ground, including race, gender, creed, ancestry, disability and family status, to name just a few. With respect…
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