Legal View

How fertility consent forms can shape the relationship between clinics and patients By Marina Christoforou and Ramona Livera Scientific advances have created multiple ways to have a child and the ...

By Ramona Livera and Aylin Zeybek The SME Fund is a grant scheme designed to help and protect the intellectual property (IP) rights of EU small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). ...

The founder of WallStreetBets, which has been credited with helping ignite investors’ frenzy into “meme” stocks, sued Reddit Inc on Wednesday, accusing it of wrongly banning him from moderating the ...

An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted Silvio Berlusconi over allegations of bribing witnesses in an underage prostitution case that has dogged the former prime minister for more than a decade. ...

EU’s highest court has restricted public access Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras and Elena Hadjidemetriou Under the provisions of the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive all EU member states are required ...

Nestle (NESN.S) will pay a former manager 2 million Swiss francs ($2.2 million) compensation after a Swiss court upheld her claim of bullying while working at the company, newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported. ...

David Pannick, of Blackstone Chambers, will again defend Manchester City after the Premier League brought more than 100 charges against the football club for breaches of financial rules on Monday. City, ...

Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS) has agreed to pay $150 million to British nanotechnology company Nanoco Technologies to settle patent lawsuits over technology used in Samsung’s LED televisions, Nanoco and an ...

By Tom Hals, Mike Spector and Dan Levine A US appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over its ...

Thousands of abortion opponents rallied in Washington on Friday for the 50th annual “March for Life,” marking a new chapter for a movement that has organized for decades around overturning ...

Justice Minister Stephie Dracou hailed on Wednesday another important step towards judicial reform as she received the study for the establishment of the courts service. “The progress achieved so far ...

By Aylin Zeybek The Intellectual Property Right and Related Rights Law of 1976 (59/1976) was amended in October 2022. The amendments introduce necessary implementing provisions for compliance with the World Intellectual Property Organisation ...

A New York judge on Friday sentenced Donald Trump’s namesake real estate company to pay a maximum $1.61 million criminal penalty after it was convicted of scheming to defraud tax ...

A Manhattan jury on Thursday said Adidas AG (ADSGn.DE) had failed to show luxury brand Thom Browne Inc’s use of stripes on its clothing infringed the sportswear giant’...

Masood Ahmed, Associate Professor at the School of Law of the University of Leicester, who was in Cyprus last month, answers questions on the updated Civil Procedure Rules that have ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to an appeal reducing the prison sentence of a man who killed his father in Lefkara from 16 years in jail to 12. The decision, published on ...

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday opted to keep in place a measure aimed at deterring illegal border crossings, hundreds of migrants in northern Mexico were taking ...

By Alexandros Clerides In any case where the death of a person results from an act of another person, there is a question as to how much this act will ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday said Covid-era restrictions at the US-Mexico border that have prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum should be kept in place for ...

UEFA and FIFA’s rules giving them the right to block clubs from joining a breakaway league and penalise players who do so are compatible with EU antitrust laws, an ...

By Alexandros Clerides The background of the discussion is the fact that a police interrogator should act in a manner that excludes the possibility of fabricating testimony and his impartial ...

US President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law on at a jubilant celebration that featured U.S. singer Cyndi Lauper performing “True Colors” in front of ...

How the Parole Board in Cyprus works By Alexandros Clerides After well-known European and Cypriot decisions, the Parole Board was introduced through legislation and specific articles found in the Prisons ...

Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from purchasing tobacco as part of a package of new anti-smoking laws that passed parliament on Tuesday and are among the most ...