Samoa: Controversial Constitutional Reforms Passed
(Jan. 13, 2021) On December 15, 2020, the Parliament of Samoa voted to pass three bills that “fundamentally alter the country’s constitution and judicial system.” The three bills – the Constitution...
View ArticleGermany: New English-Speaking Commercial Court Opened in the State of...
(Jan. 15, 2021) At the beginning of November 2020, the first English-speaking commercial court began operating in Germany, with locations in Stuttgart (Stuttgart Commercial Court) and Mannheim...
View ArticleChina: Country's Second Specialized Financial Court to Be Established in Beijing
(Feb. 10, 2021) On January 22, 2021, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) issued a decision approving the establishment of a new specialized financial court, the Beijing...
View ArticleDenmark: Parliament Votes to Initiate Impeachment Proceedings against Former...
(Feb. 19, 2021) On February 2, 2021, the Danish Parliament voted to initiate impeachment court proceedings against former Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing Inger Støjberg for issuing a...
View ArticleInternational: International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Confirms...
(Feb. 23, 2021) On January 28, 2021, in its Judgment on Preliminary Objections in the Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean,...
View ArticleGermany: Amendments to Adoption Law Enacted
(Mar. 16, 2021) On February 18, 2021, the Act to Improve Support to Families That Are Adopting (Adoption Support Act) was published in the German Federal Law Gazette. The Adoption Support Act aims to...
View ArticleEngland: "Nightingale Courts" Aim to Relieve Pandemic Backlog of Court Cases
(Mar. 29, 2021) England’s court administration agency, Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), has introduced additional venues to be used as temporary courts to ease pressure on the courts...
View ArticleJordan: Former Crown Prince and Others Accused of Destabilizing State...
(Apr. 12, 2021) On April 5, 2021, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi announced in a press conference that former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, the king’s half-brother, and more than a...
View ArticleSweden: Patent and Market Court Declares Classic Works Quotable Even under...
(Apr. 30, 2021) On April 15, 2021, the Swedish Patent and Market Court held that classic texts that are part of the Swedish cultural heritage may be quoted or reproduced unaltered, even when the...
View ArticleFrance: Government Initiates Judicial Reforms
(May 25, 2021) On April 14, 2021, the French prime minister and the minister of justice submitted a bill to Parliament that aims to reform certain aspects of the French judiciary and to “restore trust...
View ArticleInternational: Genocide Conviction Against Ratko Mladic Upheld
(June 15, 2021) On June 8, 2021, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) upheld the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY’s) 2017 judgment...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Law on International Commercial Arbitration Adopted
On August 17, 2021, the Republic of Uzbekistan’s Law on International Commercial Arbitration (ICA Law) will enter into force.This law was signed by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on February 16,...
View ArticleEngland and Wales: Employment Tribunal Rules Gender-Critical Beliefs...
In a decision handed down on June 10, 2021, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) in England and Wales held that a worker’s gender-critical beliefs toward transgender people are protected as a...
View ArticleIsrael: New Amendment Ends Haredi Control of Selection of Rabbinical Judges
On July 28, 2021, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), in a 59–54 vote, passed the Rabbinical Judges (Amendment No. 29) Law 5781- 2021 (amendment law), amending the Rabbinical Judges Law, 5714-1955, as...
View ArticleIsrael: Rabbinical Courts' Jurisdiction Extended to Enable Jewish Divorce...
On November 30, 2021, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed the Rabbinical Court Jurisdiction (Marriage and Divorce (Amendment No. 5 and Temporary Order) Law, 5782-2021 (Amendment Law). The...
View ArticleIsrael: Labor Court Rules Approval of Telework Requests Is Prerogative of...
On March 4, 2022, the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court ruled that an employer who denied a temporary employee permission to telework over dissatisfaction with her job performance and the short duration of...
View ArticleBrazil: Superior Electoral Tribunal and Federal Supreme Court Sign Agreement...
On May 18, 2022, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) issued a press release announcing that the TSE and the Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF) had...
View ArticleBrazil: Superior Electoral Tribunal May Cancel Registration of Candidates Who...
On May 31, 2022, Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who will head the Superior Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) when Brazil’s general elections are held on October...
View ArticleIsrael: Labor Court Clarifies Labor Relations Rules Applicable in...
On August 3, 2022, the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court approved a motion to file a class action against an app-based food delivery service company to require the company to contribute to its couriers’...
View ArticleBrazil: Two New Criminal Courts Created in State of Rio de Janeiro to...
On September 5, 2022, the Justice Tribunal of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro (Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, TJRJ) inaugurated two criminal courts specializing in prosecuting...
View ArticleItaly: Amendments to the Tax Justice System Adopted
On September 1, 2022, Law No. 130 of August 31, 2022, containing provisions on the tax justice system, entered into effect in Italy.Modification of the Denomination of Tax CourtsArticle 1(1)(a) of Law...
View ArticleIsrael: National Labor Court Quintuples Compensation in Occupational...
On September 6, 2022, Israel’s National Labor Court (NLC) partially accepted an appeal by a former public hospital employee over a decision by the Nazareth Regional Labor Court and quintupled the...
View ArticlePakistan: Federal Shariat Court Upholds Punjab Protection of Women against...
On Nov. 22, 2022, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) of Pakistan issued a judgment determining that no provision of the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act, 2016, a law enacted by the...
View ArticleGermany: Federal Fiscal Court Holds Cryptocurrency Transactions Subject to...
In a decision published on February 28, 2023, the German Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof, BFH) held that profits gained from cryptocurrency (currency token) transactions within the one-year...
View ArticleBrazil: New Law Creates Specialized Police Stations for Women
On April 3, 2023, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Law No. 14,541 of April 3, 2023, which provides for the creation and uninterrupted operation of specialized police stations for...
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