Swamdi Ramdev v Facebook, Google, Youtube et al at the Delhi High Court:...
‘The race between technology and the law could be termed as a hare and tortoise race – As technology gallops, the law tries to keep pace.’ (see further below). Thank you Daphne Keller for flagging CS...
View ArticleThe French Constitutional Court on exporting environmental pollution and...
I seem to be having my environment cap firmly on this week so I am happy to thank Le Monde for flagging the judgment of the French Constitutional Court 2019-823 of 31 January in which it sanctioned...
View ArticleA quick (jurisdictional) note on the Cobalt supply chain litigation.
News broke a few weeks back on the class action suit introduced in the USDC for the District of Columbia, against Apple, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla. Swiss-based Glencore (of Mark Rich fame) and...
View ArticleA reminder: Austrian courts apply CJEU Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook...
I had already reported in March on the first application of the CJEU C-18/18 Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook ruling in an update to my post on the latter. I thought I’ld add a separate post on the...
View ArticleAkkurate: Whether English discovery may act extraterritorially under the EU...
Graham Woloff eaor Calzaturificio Zengarini eaor re Akkurate Ltd, [2020] EWHC 1433 (Ch) concerns the question whether the court has the power under section 236(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 to require...
View ArticleThe GDPR’s one stop shop principle put to the test in French Supreme Court...
Thank you Gaetan Goldberg for flagging that the French Supreme Court has confimed on 19 June last, jurisdiction of the French Data Protection Agency (‘DpA’), CNIL for issuing its fine (as well as...
View ArticleGoogle and the jurisdictional reach of the Belgian DPA in right to be...
Thank you Nathalie Smuha for first signalling the €600,000.00 fine which the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued on Tuesday against Google Belgium, together with a delisting order of...
View ArticleInspection of SPS standards by ricochet. The CJEU on extra-EU enforcement of...
The CJEU (General Court) held in Case T-429/18 BRF SA et al v European Commission this week. I need to think a bit more about the implications of the judgment, particularly as I am keen to submit a...
View ArticleCJEU holds EU flight Regulation abides by customary international law in...
A brief post on the judgment of the CJEU in C-561/20 United Airlines. The CJEU held that the EU flight delay compensation rules of Regulation 261/2004 apply to a flight operated by non-EU airline on...
View ArticleDutch judge gives green light to export ban for fuels banned under EU law....
In Zenith Energy Amsterdam B.V. and Exolum Amsterdam BV v The Netherlands a Dutch judge last week rejected the challenge by fuel traders of the Dutch ban on export of fuels to non-EU (particularly...
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