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Nokia to Audit Australian SMS Marketing

Finnish mobile giant, Nokia Corporation, is to audit its SMS marketing in Australia following an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The ACMA is Australia’s regulator for…

January 25, 2012No CommentRead More

Australian High Court Reverses Refugee Swap Program

The High Court of Australia has ruled that controversial plans to swap asylum seekers for registered refugees from Malaysia was “made without power and is invalid”. The Minister for Immigration…

August 31, 2011No CommentRead More

Lucasfilm Ltd Calls on UK to Modernise Copyright Law

Lucasfilm Ltd which owns the rights to Star Wars and its related products, today issued a mixed reponse to a UK Supreme Court ruling on a copyright infringement of a…

July 28, 2011No CommentRead More

Guantanamo Victims Win Judgement on “Closed Material Procedures” in UK Justice System

In a landmark case against the security services, rendition victims have won their case that special “Closed Material Procedures” are not permissible in a civil case for damages against those…

July 13, 2011No CommentRead More

UK: Elderly Forced to Use Incontinence Pads Rather Than The Bathroom

In a Supreme Court judgement issued on 6th July 2011, an appeal from a former prima ballerina to be granted assistance from her local borough council to visit the bathroom…

July 6, 2011No CommentRead More

Augustin Bizimungu Sentenced to 30 Years for Rwandan Genocide

Augustin Bizimungu, the former Chief of the Rwandan Army, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. A three judge panel found him…

May 18, 2011No CommentRead More

Miscarriage of Justice Payments Not to “compensate someone who had in fact committed the crime”

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling on the matter of compensation payments to people with quashed convictions. The ruling gave four categories of those cases in which the Court…

May 11, 2011No CommentRead More

Law: The Twists and Turns of the Case of the Bahia Emerald

Judge Kronstadt’s Tentative and Proposed Statement of Decision in the case of the Bahia Emerald provides provides a fascinating insight into the twists and turns of the high profile case…

April 14, 20111 CommentRead More

Law: Judge Issues Tentative and Proposed Statement of Decision in Bahia Emerald Case

On 11th April 2011, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John A. Kronstadt signed a Tentative and Proposed Statement of Decision finding Anthony Thomas’ claim of ownership of the Bahia Emerald…

April 12, 20111 CommentRead More

Law: Indian Supreme Court Judgement “Rajesh Singh & Ors. V State of U.P.”

In the case of Rajesh Singh & Ors. V State of U.P., Justice V.S. Sirpurkar reversed the acquittal of Rajesh Singh, Najai Srivastav and Mohan Singh for the murder of an…

March 28, 2011No CommentRead More