A recent preliminary ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the joint case (C-148/21 and C-184/21) between a luxury fashion brand known for its signature red-soled heels Christian Louboutins and an e-commerce giant Amazons might mark a start of an era of increased accountability of marketplaces in relation to listings of third parties they accommodate on their platforms.The ruling, which is a divergence from prior cases and the Advocate General’s opinion in the case, will likely be seen as good news for brand owners, particularly in the luxury space, and how e-commerce platforms respond…
Following weeks of legal debate about foreign sovereignty and the nuances of US law, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia joined the fray with a friend-of-the-court brief and a breakdown of Saudi law that promises to complicate the PGA Tour’s counterclaim against the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
The PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, have argued that they are nothing more than investors in LIV Golf, which filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Tour last year. Lawyers for the Tour claim the Fund and Al-Rumayyan are deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of LIV and, therefore, must submit to US…
Andrew Green finds reasons for hope when it comes to addressing climate change.
In his recent book Picking Up the Slack: Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate PolicyGreen, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, explores how the law and legal institutions are shaping our current response to climate change.
The book delves into the complexity of the issue in the Canadian context. For example, Green examines the difficulties caused by the discretion embedded in our environmental laws by the diffusion of responsibility for climate law and policy, as well as the deference of courts and the public…
Hamburg, Germany – Not only known for its famous seafood and the third largest European seaport for goods and cargo handling1but also a considerable and noteworthy jurisdiction when it comes to the protection and enforcement of trade mark rights in preliminary proceedings.
The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg found in a recent trade mark dispute in preliminary injunction proceedings (Decision of 29 September 2022 – 5 U 91/21) between the “Deutsche Telekom” (“Deutsche Telekom” (“Claimant”) and the Spanish telecommunication company “Telefónica” and its German subsidiary (together “Defendants”), that the application and use of a “T” consisting of five dots in…
TEMPO. CO, Jakarta – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo enacted the Draft Bill on the Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (PPSK) as Law No.4/2023 (PPSK Law).
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati explained that the government and House legislators managed to reach an agreement on five major points regulated in the PPSK Law.
“The first is the improvement of financial sector authorities with a main focus on institutional; independence,” minister Sri mentioned in a written statement on Friday, January 13, 2023.
The second and third aspect, Sri continued, is the improvement of governance and increasing public trust, and encouraging the…
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Increase article font sizeAnother former Alberta justice minister has been cited by the professional oversight body for lawyers for his conduct.In the citation posted to the Law Society of Alberta website, Kaycee Madu is alleged to have “engaged in conduct that undermined respect for the administration of justice” when he called Edmonton Police Service Chief Dale McFee over a traffic ticket on March 10, 2021.
CBC News first broke the story of the phone call.
Hours after news of that phone call was made public, then-premier Jason Kenney stripped Madu of his cabinet post,…
Donald Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen plans to call one of the former president’s sons as a witness in an upcoming trial over whether Trump’s company owes up to $1.3 million in legal fees to Cohen, his attorneys said Friday.
Cohen, who originally sued the Trump Organization in March 2019, wants the Trump Organization to pay his fees stemming from Cohen’s defense of Trump and himself during investigations in 2017 and 2018, and during roughly 20 meetings with the Manhattan district attorney and a grand jury before Trump was indicted in March.
An attorney for Cohen said in court Friday that…
Anti-vaccine doctor’s fans flood court, claiming to be ‘common-law grand jury’ in his $66.6M lawsuit
Room 31 at the Vancouver law courts is normally a quiet, somewhat boring place, where lawyers present brief arguments on procedural questions and spectators rarely present.
But Friday morning was different. As a clerk attempted to organize a long list of matters on the docket, about two dozen supporters of anti-vaccine activist Daniel Nagase flooded into the courtroom and declared himself a “common-law grand jury under the Magna Carta.”
Members of the crowd, some wearing shirts reading “Purebloods Stand Together,” took turns reading out a statement charging a government lawyer with obstruction of justice for attempting to have Nagase’s $66.6-million…