Legal View

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim LEAs South Korea moves to ban eating dog meat, many of those involved in the centuries-old controversial practice are fighting to keep it legal. ...

Spain’s anti-trust watchdog this week cleared Amazon (AMZN.O), Booking Holdings (BKNG.O) and Tripadvisor (TRIP.O) of participating in or facilitating fake reviews on their websites. CNMC, as ...

By Stefanos Sofroniou, In a major shift toward corporate accountability, the European Union has recently overhauled its sustainability reporting rules under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) which applies to large, ...

Food delivery firm Deliveroo’s riders cannot be represented by a trade union for the purposes of collective bargaining, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The Independent ...

Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, was sued on Monday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused it of illegally operating as a securities exchange ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda to resurrect his plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country after ...

Medical files contain personal data that patients are entitled to receive a copy of free of charge Among the fundamental human rights of every natural person who becomes a patient ...

The US Army set aside the court-martial convictions from a century ago of 110 African American soldiers, including 19 who were executed, saying they were denied fair trials in a landmark acknowledgement ...

Prince Harry, singer Elton John and five other high-profile British figures can have their lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper alleging widespread unlawful behaviour heard at trial, ...

Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump testified on Wednesday that she did not recall details of real-estate deals she worked on at her father’s company, in a New York ...

By Stefanos Sofroniou The first ever legal framework on Artificial Intelligence could be agreed upon by the EU legislators as soon as this December. The draft Regulation proposed by the ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange in one of the biggest financial frauds on record, a verdict that cemented the 31...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyer told jurors on Wednesday that prosecutors in his fraud trial sought to portray him as a “villain” and a “monster” because they could ...

By Alexandros Clerides Every year we hear that the prison is overpopulated without any actions being taken. At the same time, for so many years inmates in the Central Prison ...

India’s top court on Tuesday declined to legalise same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide, agreeing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that the legislature is ...

A court in Cyprus on Wednesday ruled that Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz should be extradited to Romania, acting on an outstanding warrant issued by that country over a land ...

The European Patent Convention is a cornerstone on which European innovation has prospered over the last 50 years – and is just as relevant today as the day it was signed By ...

By Dorina Mastora Imagine the world of record management in legal practice as a grand theatre production, where every action and decision take centre stage. In this intricate performance, the ...

By Katerina Pillakouri For most women, motherhood is undoubtedly nature’s most precious gift. Nevertheless, it has become increasingly evident that not all couples can rely on the certainty of ...

Donald Trump went on trial on Monday for fraud, in a civil case against him and his family business that could deal a major blow to the former U.S. ...

By Alexandros Clerides Only convicts at the Central Prisons have the right to be included in the electronic bracelet monitoring programme, namely those who have already been sentenced by the ...

Third country nationals and European citizens are not eligible for any of the gradual reintegration programmes By Alexandros Clerides It is a well-known practice that both the directorate of Central ...

A Polish watchdog is investigating Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI over a complaint that its ChatGPT chatbot breaks European Union data protection laws known as the GDPR, it said. OpenAI has ...

In England this happened in 1999 and in Cyprus this month so it was about time The administration of civil justice in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) has a brand new ...