Five women who say they were denied abortions sue Texas
Five women who said they were denied abortions despite grave risk to their lives have sued the state of Texas, in the first apparent case of pregnant women suing over ...
Disgraced ex-lawyer Murdaugh sentenced to life for murdering wife and son
Richard ‘Alex’ Murdaugh, the disgraced lawyer and member of a powerful South Carolina family, was sentenced to life on Friday for killing his wife and son in what prosecutors said ...
Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan denied parole for 16th time
A California review board on Wednesday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
Sirhan was ...
Car repossession – How it works & how it affects your credit
With monthly EMI rates going over $650 on average, it’s harder than ever to pay back your car loan in 2022. With such high-interest rates, repossessions are also on the rise. ...
Vanessa Bryant settles for $28.85m over Kobe crash pics
Vanessa Bryant settled her remaining claims against the County of Los Angeles on Tuesday over the sharing of graphic photos of her husband Kobe Bryant and their daughter Gianna after ...
Important gaps in fertility treatment in Cyprus
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 ...
Funding opportunity to help EU SMEs to protect their IP rights
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).
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Founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite meme stock frenzy, sues Reddit
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 ...
Italy’s Berlusconi acquitted in ‘Bunga Bunga’ bribe case
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.
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Reflections on the EU ruling on beneficial ownership access
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 to pay ex manager $2.2 million over bullying case
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.
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Man City hire £80,000 a day Pannick as defence counsel
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 LED settlement worth $150 million, nanotech firm says
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 ...
US court rejects J&J bankruptcy strategy for thousands of talc lawsuits
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 ...
Abortion opponents call for stricter bans at first post-Roe Washington march
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 ...
‘Important progress’ towards judicial reform
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 ...
New copyright law in Cyprus sets an excessive threshold
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 ...
Trump’s company sentenced to pay $1.61m penalty for tax fraud
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 ...
Adidas loses NY trial against Thom Browne over three-stripe design
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’...
Tackling the ‘enemies of justice’
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 ...
Sentence of man who killed father reduced
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 ...
Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on US court ruling
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 ...
Dangerous acts causing the death of another
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 ...
Border restrictions on migrants to stay says US Supreme Court
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 ...