the Court also has exclusive competence to decide on matters of infringement and validity relating to ‘traditional’ European patents (i.e. European patents that have been ‘conventionally’ validated in selected European countries) and also on matters relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates (...
Justice Wang Shumei (previously the head of the #4 Civil Division) highlighted that this interpretation was needed because the previous provisions on the application of international treaties in the General Principles of Civil Law were abolished when the Civil Code was promulgated, leaving the rules ...
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down three bankruptcy rulings to finish the Term ended in July 2024. The decisions address the validity of nonconsensual third-party releases in chapter 11 plans, the standing of insurance companies to object to "insurance neutral" chapter 11 plans, and the remed...
reports and documents, matters relating to national security and sovereignty take a prominent place. The SPC reiterates that its foreign-related adjudication work serves the domestic and external greater situations. This section highlights two areas of service in protection of national security and ...
immigration law and international obligations on the treatment of asylum seekers. "The Migrant Protection Protocols, implemented pursuant to express authority granted by Congress decades ago, have been critical to restoring the government’s ability to manage the Southwest border and to work coop...
Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery , required the UK Supreme Court to resolve claims that by operating an open-air terrace, from which visitors could enjoy a high-level view of London, the defendants were committing the tort of private nuisanc
(MNEs), which operate across jurisdictions where human rights are afforded varying levels of protection. In the absence of an international treaty on business and human rights, a number of non-legally binding instruments have proliferated over the last decade. These ‘soft-law’ instruments reflect...
The US District Court of California has dismissed a consumer lawsuit that accuses Google of partaking in anticompetitive behavior through its exclusive contracts with developers like Apple. The Judge ruled that the 26 consumers, who are the plaintiffs in this case, did not provide adequate evidence...
Strengthen the protection of the rights of women, children, the elderly, disabled people, etc. (It is unclear whether that will include a better legal infrastructure for sexual harassment cases.) Strengthen administrative trials, supervise and support administrative agencies to administer according to ...
Of course there is no contradiction with strengthening the protection of human rights. Now Central leaders repeatedly say: the primary responsibility of the entire political-legal system is to safeguard political security, not only criminal adjudication and not only the adjudication work of the courts...