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Posted: June 1st, 2009, 9:00am MSD
Discrimination - On May 27, 2009, the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal of Tasmania, a division of the Australian island state's Magistrates Court, found that the Australian Red Cross policy of refusing blood donations from sexually active homosexual males was not...
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Posted: June 1st, 2009, 9:00am MSD
Criminal Law and Procedure - The House of Lords, the UK's final court of appeal, has recently ruled that indeterminate sentences for public protection (commonly known as IPPs) should remain in place, despite there being a lack of adequate resources available...
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Posted: June 1st, 2009, 9:00am MSD
Intellectual Property - On April 23, 2009, China's Supreme People's Court issued the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Hearing Civil Cases Involving Protection of Renowned Trademarks [hereinafter Interpretation]. It became effective on May 1,...
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Posted: June 1st, 2009, 9:00am MSD
Freedom of Information - The law on the right of information or, in European Union (EU) terminology, public access to documents produced by EU institutions, is in the process of being amended. On March 11, 2009, the European Parliament introduced...
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Posted: June 1st, 2009, 9:00am MSD
Family - The Law Commission of India, which has the responsibility of drafting new laws and suggesting amendments to other laws, received a suggestion from the High Court of Madras that the Christian Law of Divorce (The Divorce...