Thailand 2024: Constitutional Court Rules against the Proposal to Reform Lèse-Majesté Law
The Constitutional Court of Thailand ruled that the opposition Move Forward Party’s efforts to change section 112 of the criminal code, which punishes a person who insults or defames the king or the royal family, violated Thailand’s Constitution. It also ordered Move Forward to stop all attempts at instituting any change.
Elon Musk X v X Social media
The “X Corp”. is being challenged in a legal law suit in a trademark infringement case. The plaintiff, is an ad agency,“X Social Media”, focused on mass-tort litigation. The lawsuit was that the "X Social Media" set up since 2016 and owns a federal trademark has invested millions and more in advertising to reach potential clients.
China: Copyright protection for AI-generated works
In November 2023, the Beijing Internet Court in China in a judgement of a landmark case of AI generated image a copyright infringement case, answers the important questions of (1) whether AI-generated works are protectable by copyright, and (2) if yes, who owns the copyright.
Australia: Family Law reforms 2024
Best interests of the child applies throughout the case considering factors such as cultural background, family or domestic violence concerns taking importance to safetiness of the child.
Social Media ‘X’ under aggressive censorship in Brazil
Elon Musk threatens to disobey the Brazilian Supreme court which intends to ban certain accounts on the social Media platform ‘X’ challenging it to be an aggressive censorship. The Attorney General Jorge Messias mentioned that it is urgent to regulate social media network that violates the rule of law and that which fails to comply court orders.
Scotland
Public Order Act 1986 was passed in Great Britain to stream line the criminal law against race, colour, nationality and such crimes. Punishment against this is seven years. The Hate crime and public order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates new areas of crimes such as against disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or intersex, variations in sex characteristics etc.
Titanic law leverages Baltimore accident ‘24
The Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 is a United States federal law that allows shipowners to limit their liability to the value of the vessel after an accident, as well as any pending freight. It was enacted to encourage investment in the maritime industry by providing a degree of financial protection for shipowners during the olden days.
Thailand approves Marriage equality bill, 2024
Thailand's parliament approves a marriage equality bill on Wednesday, a landmark step that moves one of Asia's most liberal countries closer to becoming its third territory to legalise same-sex unions. It becomes the first in South east Asia to guarantee marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
Russia terms ‘LGBT’ movement as ‘extremists’
The Russian Supreme court has ruled “international LGBT movement” as an extremist organization. The supreme court also declared the rainbow flag a forbidden. The Supreme Court ruling also allows the arbitrary prosecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people along with anyone who defends their rights or expresses solidarity with them.
EPA pulls tighter stand on the Auto Emission Rules 2024
Soot pollution is one of the most dangerous forms of air pollution and is linked to a range of serious and potentially deadly illnesses, including asthma and heart attacks. The United States EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) finalized new, tighter standards on PM2.5 air pollution, also known as soot.
Finland to grant international students residence and work permits
A country like Finland is crowned the happiest country for the fifth consecutive year in the World’s happiness Report 2022. Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin had proposed that President Sauli Niinistö waved green light to the legislation on March 13, 2022,
Cricket: legal consequences of ball tampering.
Ball tampering is an action in which a fielder, illegally alters the condition of the ball thereby interfering the aerodynamics of the ball to aid swing bowling. Traditionally players also use the one side shining method with their saliva and sweat to generate movement in air while it is swung to the batsman.
China’s law on Family
In central China in the Hunan province a 9-year-old girl who was neglected by her divorced parents was forced to live with a nanny. A court in Tianxin district of Changsha city, in the Hunan province ordered the girl to live with her mother.
Cannabis and law
Just prohibiting cannabis has not controlled or had been effective in reducing health problems or the negative impacts on social system. Making it prohibited has only increased the supply of such illicit trade into the market thus increasing the violence and organised crimes in the society.
Covid- 19 vaccines finally shows green signal against patent rights helping the developing nations.
The world Trade organization (WTO) sealed by an the unprecedented agreement of 164 WTO members, has finally approved Covid vaccines against patent rights and the mounted barriers by the intellectual property restrictions to manufacture for a period of 5 years.
Corporate legal news
Spies would swallow these poison pills if they thought they were about to be caught, similarly this kind of strategy is implemented in the Corporate world, when a company may employ poison pill tactics to avoid such hostile takeovers. The poison pill tactic was first credited to the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz in the 1980s.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
IUCN was initially known as World Conservation Union, is the global authority to safeguard and protect the nature and the different species of natural and wild world living in it. It works to help countries mainstream nature into economic decisions and its policies.
Swatch filed a complained against Samsung for infringing trademarked watch face designs and wins the battle
The case was filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York by Swatch Group of Companies which include Blancpain, Breguet, Glashütte, Hamilton, Jaquet Droz, Longines, Mido, Omega, Tissot, and Swatch proper. And The defendant Samsung Electronics Co. LTD. and Samsung Electronics America.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a group of 38 member countries that discuss and develop economic and social policy. OECD members should be typically democratic countries that support free-market economies.
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International courts of justice allows Rohingya genocide case-against Myanmar filed by Gambia
The International court of justice at Hague on July 22,2022 allowed the case between Gambia and Myanmar under the international genocide convention. The case was filed on November 11, 2019, against Myanmar’s campaign of murder, rape, arson and other atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.
