European Union: Disclosure & Electronic Discovery & Privilege

In two judgments, the European Court of Justice has provided guidance on the extent of the exemption for authorities acting in a legislative capacity from having to provide access to environmental information under the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission reaffirmed and extended its approval of the Multi-Employer Citation Policy in Secretary of Labor v. Summit Contractors, Inc., which allows the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to cite construction employers for exposing another employer’s workers to a hazard.

In general, the prosecution of a multi-jurisdictional concealed asset recovery investigation involves both extra-judicial and judicially assisted investigative procedures.

"Ó Ceallaigh v An Bord Altrainais" [2011] IESC 50: In December 2011, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an appeal by a domiciliary midwife from a High Court decision refusing to restrain the continuation of a professional misconduct hearing on the ground of objective bias.

Termination by an employee of a definite-term agreement (judgment of the Supreme Court dated 14 February 2012, file no. III PZP 5/11).

According to a decision of the Regional Labour Court of Düsseldorf dated 7 March 2012 (docket no. 4 TaBV 11/12), an employer may not arbitrarily access data stored on the works council's drive of the EDP system.

The defendants argued that there was a substantial overlap of evidence, witnesses, issues of law and alleged losses claimed by the plaintiff.

Norwich Pharmacal Relief is a court ordered relief, compelling an individual or a company to disclose information or documentation.

The High Court has provided further guidance on the appropriate metrics for the assessment of damages in two recent judgments involving publication...

The case of "Leander Construction Ltd v Mulalley & Company Ltd [2011] EWHC 3449", heard before the Technology and Construction Court in the United Kingdom, recently considered the question as to whether a sub-contractor is under an implied obligation to a main contractor to proceed ‘regularly and diligently’ with the sub-contract works.

In almost every due diligence involving real estate in the Czech Republic, several legal issues emerge which are crucial for the existence (or non-existence) of ownership or other rights regarding real estate established in favour of certain subjects.

In this article, we briefly address the Supreme Court's decision in the so-called Sopron underground parking lot case which has been one of the hottest topics in the legal playing field in the past few months.