Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 12^th July the Court will hand-down two judgments:

• Philipp v Barclays Bank UK PLC [2023] UKSC 25. The Court will determine three questions, (1) Does the Quincecare duty have any application in a case where the relevant payment instruction was not issued to the bank by an agent of the bank’s customer? (2) If not, should either (i) the Quincecare duty be extended so as to include the obligations contended for by Mrs Philipp in relation to authorized push payment fraud, or (ii) the

The ILPC is honored to announce that Robert Spanoformer President of the European Court of Human Rights, will deliver the ILPC Annual Lecture 2023.

Mr Spano is a Partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a tenured Professor of Law, University of Iceland. Mr Spano is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple and has published extensively in the areas of international dispute resolution, public international law, digital rights, and human rights law. During his time at the Strasbourg Court, he took

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June 23 (Reuters) – Ukrainian state-owned energy company Naftogaz said on Friday it had taken legal action in the United States against Russia to recover $5 billion awarded in the Hague as compensation for damages and lost property in Crimea.

It said it had filed a motion in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and that it had the right to do so as the US is among countries hosting Russian assets.

Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, seized Crimea in 2014 and annexed the peninsula, triggering sanctions from

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Chicago, IL – June 21, 2023 – Today, Zacks Equity Research discusses IPG Photonics IPGP and IRIDEX IRIX.

Industry: Laser Systems

Link: https://www.zacks.com/commentary/2110640/2-laser-systems-stocks-to-buy-in-a-prospering-industry

The Zacks Laser Systems and Components industry benefits from upbeat demand from electronics, semiconductors and healthcare end-markets. IPG Photonics and IRIDEX are well-positioned to benefit from these trends. Robust demand for high-power continuous wave and pulsed laser for cutting and battery-processing applications, growing demand for high-performance optical devices, and the ongoing adoption of cloud computing, autonomous driving, IoT and 5G are the key catalysts.

Nevertheless, the industry suffers from supply-chain disruptions, including parts and

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 21^st june the Court will hand-down two judgments at 9:45am in Courtroom 1:

• R (on the application of Maguire) v His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde and another [2023] UKSC 20. The Court will determine whether the death of a disabled woman who was deprived of her liberty engaged the state’s obligation to protect life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, therefore requiring an inquest jury to make findings regarding the circumstances by which the death occurred.
• R

Leading settlement funding firm reports that the e-cig manufacturer is under fire from family groups, facing multiple lawsuits with more to come

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Legal-Bay LLC, the premier Pre Settlement Funding Company, reports that JUUL Labs, Inc. has agreed to pay $40MM to the state of Californian due to allegations of deceptive marketing for their electronic cigarette product. Many of these lawsuits allege that JUUL’s marketing tactics were specifically designed to appeal to young people via social media campaigns and influencer partnerships, involving flashy advertising and sweet flavors to present a product that would

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the nation’s legal debt ceiling, but now Congress must rush to approve the spending cuts package in a matter of days to avert a potentially disastrous US default .

The agreement risks angering both Democratic and Republican sides as lawmakers Sunday begin to unpack the concessions made to compromise. Negotiators agreed to some Republican demands for increased work requirements for recipients of food stamps that had sparked an uproar from

A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to the Biden administration on guns Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging tighter regulations on stabilizing braces, an accessory that has been used in several mass shootings in the U.S.

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s rule from going into effect for the gun owners and groups who filed the lawsuit. The order came shortly before a deadline that would have required people to register stabilizing braces and pay a fee, or remove the braces from their weapons.

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and