INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT: A BARRIER TO PUBLIC HEALTH?

“With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed The virus has now spread over the globe, causing tremendous physical, financial and social breakdown on every continent, nation, state, province and individual. This terrible predicament has come from the spread of the catastrophic and disastrous corona virus disease. […]

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‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case | Texas

In April 1999, John Balentine, a Black man on trial for murder in Amarillo, Texas, sat before an all-white jury as they deliberated whether he should live or die. Should he be given a life sentence, in which case he would probably end his days behind prison bars? Or should they send him to death […]

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Lawyer moves High Court against registration of case

Saiby High Court Lawyer Jose Kidangoor, against whom the police have registered a criminal case following allegations of collecting money on the pretext of bribing High Court judges, on Friday approached the Kerala High Court seeking to quash all further proceedings in the case. He said in his petition that the allegations against him had […]

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The lawyer whose sex trafficking case against Instagram could spell trouble for big tech | Global development

On March 14 2022, Annie McAdams, a personal injury lawyer running a small firm in Houston, Texas, filed a civil action suit on behalf of one of her clients. The plaintiff was a 23-year-old woman who had endured years of sexual exploitation at the hands of a convicted trafficker. The defendant was one of the […]

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