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The proposal to introduce a tax on financial transactions (FTT)—or Tobin tax—across a number of EU countries by January 2014 is under pressure as Italy wants fundamental changes to the plan and the UK has launched a legal...

MÁLAGA, Spain, Apr 23 (IPS) - A new mortgage bill approved by Spain's lower house of parliament would merely put a bandaid on the plight of people whose homes are being repossessed, and would not guarantee protection for most...

Imagine you are a well-known multinational company. You’ve worked long and hard to establish yourself as a market leader. You’ve taken advice from your trusty legal team to register your trade marks. You’re pretty proud of...

The European Court of Justice will rule Thursday whether to overturn an EU ban on importing seal fur. The ban was imposed in 2010 with lawmakers citing the cruelty of seal hunting. However, organizations including Inuit groups...

The home secretary announced in October that the government was minded to use the right it has under the Lisbon treaty to opt out of measures for cooperation within the EU on police and criminal justice affairs. However, she...

LONDON (Reuters) - Luxembourg will support Britain's legal challenge to Europe's proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the country's finance minister, Luc Frieden, said on Monday. Related Stories ECB policymakers hint at... All similar articles: 99 »

The European Court of Justice has confirmed the Irish practice of allowing holding companies to become members of a VAT group and benefit from the ability to recover VAT incurred by the group as a whole.

The U.K. has challenged the proposal at the European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court, just days after the world's leading financial centers wrote to G20 finance ministers urging them to oppose the tax or risk damaging...

Luxembourg Finance Minister Luc Frieden has reportedly spoken out in support of Britain's legal challenge against plans for a European financial transaction tax (FTT). News agency Reuters quotes Frieden as saying that...

Frederick M. Abbott, Florida State University College of Law, is publishing Respect for Copyright Sovereignty in Transit: The European Court of Justice Decision in the Joined Philips/Nokia Cases in the Journal of Intellectual...

The proposal to introduce a tax on financial transactions (FTT) – or Tobin tax – across a number of EU countries by January 2014 is under pressure as Italy wants fundamental changes to the plan and the UK has launched a legal... All similar articles: 123 »

By GRP Rainer LLP - Cologne, Germany It has emerged from a judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dated 7 March 2013 (file no. C-607/11) that television broadcasters can probably ban the dissemination of their...

Chancellor George Osborne said an application had been lodged at the European Court of Justice to challenge the decision allowing 11 members of the European Union to press ahead with the plans. The UK has no intention of... All similar articles: 227 »

Offsite Article: Creative Licensing... Media companies abuse takedown orders and make them up to take down Homeland by Cory Doctorow which is licensed for sharing The ruling comes after a three-year legal between the Newspaper...

Filed under: News Levi Strauss has won a trademark battle over a small patch of red cloth stitched into the seam of the rear trouser pocket on its jeans. The company took legal action in Germany against a Swiss firm, Colloseum...

The UK government launches a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice against plans for a European financial transactions tax (FTT). EU finance tax will devastate the City and damage economies, reports warn In a...

The Luxembourg Government has recently submitted to Parliament bill of law n°6556, which aims to amend some of the Luxembourg provisions regarding enterprise migration considered as not to be compliant with EU law.

FOR small European states, language policy calls for a delicate balancing act. Luxembourg has three official languages, Switzerland four, and Belgium three. In Luxembourg, the distinction is mostly functional: different...

Minister of Justice Muhammad Al-Eisa Wednesday visited the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg, the highest legal court in the European Union. The visit was part of the King Abdullah Project to study the best international...

Glyn Moody / Techdirt : UK Supreme Court Says Unauthorized Browsing Of Copyright Material Online Is OK, But Asks European Court Of Justice Just In Case — The lawsuits brought against the media monitoring firm Meltwater in both...

The ruling comes after a three-year legal between the Newspaper Licensing Agency and a media monitoring company, Meltwater, which charges PR companies for alerts about their clients. After a dispute over fees that has already...

TAKE THE TIN FOIL COVER off your mouse UK internet users, because the Supreme Court has given you the right to browse the internet without the threat of copyright infringement proceedings. The right has been won for us by the... All similar articles: 147 »

Italian MEP Andrea Zanoni has called on the European Commission to put an end to Malta’s spring hunting derogation. The MEP, from the alliance of liberals, is the vice-president of the European Parliament’s Animal Welfare...

A preliminary ruling issued by the European Court of Justice has recommended that HM Revenue and Customs be allowed to bring a claim for damages in Denmark over an alleged VAT fraud, using a European agreement designed for...

JURIST] EU Commissioner of Justice Viviane Reding [official website] spoke out [statement] on Wednesday against Hungary's failure to reinstate judges and prosecutors who had been forced into early retirement. Last November the...

The European Court of Justice has handed down a judgement against the Belgian Flemish community for infringing EU freedom of movement by only drafting workers’ contracts in Dutch. Under the Flemish law on the use of languages,...

Thursday, April 18, 2013 From Print Edition ISLAMABAD: Akram Sheikh Advocate has proposed the formation of a South Asian Regional legal court system to resolve cross border disputes like militancy, terrorism, human smuggling,...

By Robert Verkerk PhD Executive and scientific director, ANH-Intl How would you feel if your lifeline was taken from you? Fortunately, if you were unlucky enough to find yourself in the intensive care unit of a hospital and...