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A new section on lessons from Net law for the physical planet, with components on 3D printing, robots, the Internet of Factors, drones, and the sharing economy. Basically enumerating some of the sweeping regions of influence indicates only a shadow of the sheer scale of replacement, repeal and revision ahead for Parliament: external trade competitors monetary and banking solutions telecommunications and data protection fisheries and agriculture EU standards agencies cooperation in matters of safety and the criminal law and the atmosphere.

This is only the fourth consideration by the Court of Appeal of Reynolds privilege (GKR Karate, Grobbelaar, Al-Fagih and Loutchansky) because Lord Nicholls, in introducing his ten non-exhaustive factors in 1999, anticipated that over time, a worthwhile corpus of case law will be constructed up” and the 1st considering that the Privy Council’s judgment in Bonnick v Morris.

Despite the fact that the Court has spoken frequently of the plenary power” of Congress to regulate and shield Indian tribes, Thomas wrote that the Constitution does not grant Congress power to override state law whenever that law occurs to be applied to Indians.” He argued that the custody dispute involved neither Indian commerce” nor an Indian tribe and that Congress had no legal say in the dispute.

As the CJEU has recently noted, the crucial element to differentiate in between direct and indirect discrimination is that: ‘if it is apparent that a measure which gives rise to a distinction in remedy has been introduced for reasons relating to the protected characteristic, that measure have to be classified as ‘direct discrimination’ within the meaning of EU law.

The decision of the Bombay Higher Court in the summary suit of IDBI Trusteeship Services Restricted (ITSL) v. Hubtown Restricted (Hubtown), better known as the Hubtown case has received a lot of attention for getting the Bombay High Court’s pioneering judgment which unearthed a colourable structure deployed by a non-resident investor to wriggle out of the foreign exchange laws and ensure an assured return on its investment in India.