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22 Apr 2013
Parties to civil litigation must be able to properly justify the need to make any changes to an approved costs budget, a High Court judge has warned.
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22 Apr 2013
A law reform body has proposed changes to the law that would make it easier for businesses seeking to protect their trade marks and design rights to make threats of legal action against alleged infringers of their rights without fear that those threats...
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19 Apr 2013
Judges are prevented from delivering a verdict on libel cases if the person bringing the claim before the court dies before the judgment is handed down, the High Court has said.
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18 Apr 2013
The former Shanghai-based arm of China's main international arbitration body will now be known as Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), it has announced.
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17 Apr 2013
National courts must be sure that any legal costs to be paid by a member of the public who has lost an environmental challenge against a public body are not "objectively unreasonable", the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled....
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17 Apr 2013
Courts can calculate trade mark infringement damages based on a hypothetical licensing arrangement, the High Court has said.
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16 Apr 2013
The EU's highest court has rejected complaints from Spain and Italy about the legality and fairness of plans for an EU unitary patent framework.
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12 Apr 2013
There are insufficient data protection safeguards built in to proposed reforms to the EU's insolvency law framework, a privacy watchdog has said.
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04 Apr 2013
The Scottish Parliament has passed a new law that will govern how residential disputes over the height of hedges are to be handled by local authorities.
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14 Mar 2013
Online traders will be able to resolve contractual disputes with consumers based in other EU countries through a new online dispute resolution (ODR) framework after MEPs voted to back the new regime earlier this week.
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