Search Results for: International Law

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW International Maritime Organisation convention will – upon ratification – tell ships to better manage ballast water releases, preventing transported species escaping into alien waters where they may cause ecological havoc. Ships would also record ballast water collection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) law enforcement agencies are intensifying their fight against the counterfeiting of the Euro currency, as European Central Bank (ECB) figures show an increase in seizures of forged banknotes. In the second half of 2003, 311,925 counterfeit notes were discovered in Euro and non-Euro countries, a 30 per cent increase over the first six months of 2003, when counterfeit seizures had been 59 per cent more numerous than in the previous half-year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE the political rhetoric that labels it "jackpot justice", the average US class-action award has been holding steady, says a recent study by two law school professors. Cornell University’s Theodore Eisenberg and the University of New York’s Geoffrey P.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPANISH professor of shipping sciences has told a European Parliament inquiry into the Prestige disaster that the ill-fated tanker’s captain Apostolos Mangouras should not be blamed for the tragedy. Instead, said Felipe Louzán Lago, also a merchant navy captain, blamed the Spanish authorities for not allowing Mr Mangouras to sail to a port of refuge.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A LAW allowing insurance companies to levy premium surcharges on first-time drivers and motorists who have previously driven without coverage, has been struck down by a California court. A Los Angeles judge said state legislators had overstepped their authority when approving a bill allowing insurance companies to levy lower premiums on experienced drivers who have maintained coverage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH American Tobacco in South Africa is holding private parties for established consumers to market their cigarette brands, after a ban on the advertising, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco was imposed in 2001. BAT, which holds about 95 per cent of the South African market, said the aim of the parties was to switch users to upscale brands rather than encourage non-smokers to take up the habit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
1. THE stage has been set for one of the fiercest internal EU legal battles in recent years following a decision by the European Commission to take the Union’s member states to court over their refusal to punish France and Germany for breaching the euro zone rules last November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH poultry company has created an important legal precedent forcing national authorities in the European Union (EU) to reconsider administrative decisions if they are subsequently shown to break EU law. Kühne & Heitz had gone to court to secure contested export refunds from the Netherlands Commodity Board for Poultry and Eggs.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Parliament has acted under its own initiative to put

up a plan to protect the EU’s tuna industry – both the fleet and the

canning sector. The Parliament has approved a report by a Spanish member,

Daniel VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA, which urges a reversal of present EU

policy towards the industry and calls for creation of a new

properly-staffed and financed unit within the European Commission to deal

with tuna.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A US judge has reduced a federal fine imposed on Martin County Coal Corp. by 90 per cent, whose waste pond leaked 306 million gallons of coal sludge into eastern Kentucky waterways in 2000. Martin County Coal Corp.…