The UAE recently introduced a significant reform in its judicial system, with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announcing that travel bans are automatically lifted once legal cases are resolved. This development represents a...more
Massenverfahren sind durch eine Vielzahl von Klägern gekennzeichnet, die in zahlreichen Verfahren rechtlich und tatsächlich gleichgelagerte Ansprüche geltend machen.3 Neben den promintenten Fällen der massenhaft eingereichten...more
On September 15th, 2024, the Mexican Congress published on the Diario Oficial de la Federacion (Mexican Official Gazette) a decree to amend, add, and abolish several provisions of the Mexican Constitution regarding the...more
La Subdirección de Control y Fiscalización de Sustancias Químicas y Estupefacientes del Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho de Colombia publicó recientemente una circular por medio de la cual informan a los usuarios que, a...more
The decision by a U.S. court to continue deliberating the major lawsuit filed by several visual artists against Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms could call into question how these platforms can operate without...more
Japan, similarly to many other countries, has had a long tradition of keeping non-lawyers out of legal practice for the protection of public interest and lawyers’ livelihood. This principal is laid out in Article 72 of the...more
A federal court in California recently dismissed some of the claims prominent figures in the entertainment industry have raised against OpenAI, the operator of the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. The plaintiffs...more
The New York Times recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, which operates ChatGPT, and Microsoft, which collaborates with OpenAI on the platform Copilot, over the defendants’ use of the newspaper’s copyrighted articles....more
Since 2017, Japan has been actively working to promote international arbitration. The updates to the Arbitration Act of Japan should help boost the country’s popularity as an arbitration seat....more
Headlines- • The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”) is part of a wide legislative package to prevent abuse of UK corporate structures and tackle economic crime and received Royal Assent on 26 October...more
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
On 12 April 2023, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Justice published the draft bill for a law on the financing of future-proof investments (Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz – “ZuFinG-E“). The draft...more
On 2 March 2023, the UK Ministry of Justice (“MoJ”) announced its decision to join the Singapore Convention on Mediation. The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (or...more
In light of the increase in fraud crimes in the digital space, a team from the Israeli Justice Ministry has formulated recommendations for defining a policy to contend with ransomware attacks. The recommendations relate to...more
On the first day of Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2022, Morrison Foerster hosted a hybrid panel on “Implications of PRC’s Evolving Data Protection Laws on Disclosure and Participation of PRC Parties in International...more
Mediation is globally recognized as an effective dispute resolution mechanism. A trained mediator can assist apparently diametrically opposed parties in finding a resolution that avoids the time and costs of court...more
On 13 September 2022, the UAE Ministry of Justice issued a directive which confirms that judgments issued by the English Courts can be enforced by the UAE Courts under the principle of reciprocity (the "Directive"). The...more
The UAE Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has issued a letter to the Dubai Courts dated 13 September 2022 which confirms that English Court judgments meet the grounds of reciprocity for enforcement in the onshore UAE Courts....more
In conjunction with the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”), the Saudi Centre for Commercial Arbitration (“SCCA”) conducted a study into KSA legislation and confirmed that parties to Saudi arbitration...more
Narkis Golan, a US citizen married Isacco Saada, an Italian citizen while both were in Italy in August, 2015. While there they had a child 2016. Two years later, under the pretense of attending a wedding, Golan flew to the...more
Recently, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) of Japan, which has jurisdiction over the commercial registration system, has taken measures to require certain foreign companies to file for commercial registration pursuant to the...more
At the end of March 2022, the Israeli Ministry of Justice published a draft amendment to the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law. The proposed amendment seeks to grant supervisory authority to the Israel Money Laundering and...more
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations, and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. With this month marking half a year since the UK left the EU,...more
Das BMJV hat den Entwurf zum Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG) veröffentlicht und setzt damit die EU -Whisteleblowing-Richtline um. Ab den 17. Dezember 2021 müssen Unternehmen und Behörden ein Hinweisgebersystem...more
The commercial business world is a global one, and so are the disputes that arise within it. Such disputes are adjudicated in courts in various countries or in arbitration proceedings, with each procedure regulated under...more