After several countries, such as Latvia, Bulgaria and Romania, started blocking unlicenced websites, Lithuania followed in their footsteps.

The immediate answer to this question is yes, COVID-19 could be a case of force majeure provided, however, that it can be qualified as an event meeting the following criteria: irresistibility, unpredictability and externality.

Malaysia is in the process of updating its Personal Data Protection Act to align more closely with laws in other jurisdictions. The law was originally passed in 2010 and then modified this year. As part of the modification...

On 1st January 2023, a number of regulations implementing Directive 2019/2161 - Omnibus - came into force in Poland. Many laws were amended in order to bring Polish consumer protection law...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made a significant advancement in its legal framework by enacting the first Civil Transactions Law in the Kingdom (the "CTL") , which came into effect on December 16, 2023.

In a landmark judgment on 9 September 2016, the High Court of Singapore exercised its inherent jurisdiction to grant, on an ex parte basis...

The article is a summary of the recourse available to an aggrieved landlord in the case of a non-paying tenant – with specific reference to the disconnection of electricity supply to the leased premises...

It has been reported that Egypt has become the latest jurisdiction in the Middle East to approve a data protection law.

The Ministry of Finance recently announced Cabinet Decision No 74 of 2023 (the Cabinet Decision) on the Executive Procedure of Federal Law no 28 of 2022 on Tax Procedures (New Tax Procedure Law).

2018 is a momentous year, in that it marks 100 years since British women were given the right to vote.

An overview of the key changes from the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act coming into force today, 1 April 2025.

The US Sixth Circuit Court has rejected an attempt to relax the standard for demonstrating age discrimination...

On September 20, 2018, the High Chamber of the Mexican Congress approved a bill to ratify the International Labour Organization's Convention 981 on the right to organize and to bargain collectively.

Greenwashing, or the use of green ‘claims' to improve a business' or product's environmental credentials with consumers, has come under significant scrutiny in recent years.

Fraud is not the only reason behind financial restatements. Sometimes they are caused by unintentional errors or omissions, especially as companies record complex transactions or implement new

The continuing internal tension between various agencies and offices of the U.S. federal government over how to address the (seemingly) unstoppable growth of the marijuana industry in light of current federal law has been a bit like watching the earth's tectonic plates in action.

The Federal Circuit recently held that a plaintiff seeking disgorgement of defendant's profits as a remedy for trade secret misappropriation has no right to a jury decision on the amount to be awarded;

On October 28, 2024, the Ninth Circuit struck a mass arbitration agreement as unconscionable and unenforceable under California law in Heckman v. Live Nation Ent., Inc., No. 23-55770.

On May 9, 2024, Maryland's governor, Wes Moore, approved the "Gift Card Scams Prevention Act," which is the first law in the nation aimed at targeting the widespread scam known as "gift card draining."

The proposed regulations also provide guidance on how a partnership may designate a partnership representative.