Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes.
Hunt for new Northern Ireland Lord Chief Justice as Declan Morgan prepares to retire Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan,Picture by Hugh Russell. 10 March, 2021 01:00
Siobhan Keegan gave up a lucrative career as the second highest legal aid earning barrister to become a judge
LORD Chief Justice Declan Morgan is to retire after more than a decade as Northern Ireland s most senior judge.
A selection panel is being convened with the process to begin in weeks, with the prospect of the first female appointee the strongest it has been in the post s 99-year history.
The Office of the Lord Chief Justice confirmed to the Irish News that a new head of the judiciary is being sought.
Ruth Dukes
The decision of the UK Supreme Court in the case of
Uber v Aslam has caused a great deal of excitement, understandably so. The question before the court was whether Yaseen Aslam and others, for some time drivers with Uber, had been self-employed or, alternatively, ‘workers’ with statutory rights to a minimum wage and paid holidays.
In UK law, ‘worker’ is defined in statute, with the definition referring to the kind of contract agreed with the putative employer. It had thus been possible to argue, as Uber did, that the written terms of the contract were decisive, taking the worker outside the statutory definition and application of associated legal rights. The contract with Aslam
By Viktor Katona - Mar 10, 2021, 1:00 PM CST
Judging from recent headlines, Nigeria has unleashed one of the most spectacular legal attacks on one of its key oil and gas investors, to an extent previously unseen in the country’s more than 60 years of hydrocarbon production. Shell has been active in Nigeria ever since the African country opened up to international investment in the early 1960s, maintaining its position as one of the leading actors in its upstream segment, accounting for roughly 10% of Nigeria’s crude production. Seemingly, the timing is quite inopportune for a large-scale feud – projects are getting delayed and drilling contracts cancelled, Nigeria’s GDP dropped 2% in 2020 just as was bouncing off its period of economic lassitude and OPEC+ production curtailments limiting the potential output of Nigerian producers. Despite the odds, the conflict between Nigeria and Royal Dutch Shell might be a harbinger of great transformations, not necessarily to the benefit
What I absolutely dislike about the German approach to A2SIs (and, by extension, A4SIs) is that there s no analysis much less a multifactorial analysis of the question of whether a German court should defer to a foreign court. The simplistic thinking is this: patents are good, patent lawsuits are even better, and the best patent suits are the ones filed in Germany; therefore, any foreign antisuit injunction would restrict the enforcement those sacrosanct German patent rights and must be prohibited, even though German law doesn t allow antisuit injunctions. The argument is that the foreign antisuit activity unlawfully puts a patent plaintiff into a straightjacket with respect to intellectal property that would otherwise be enforceable in Germany. (In the U.S. and China, the analysis underlying an antisuit injunction is far more sophisticated.)