Roundup weed killer lawsuit hits a snag, but Monsanto is not off the hook
Oct 28, 2018 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
On Aug. 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury handed down a US$289 million award to Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper who is dying of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Johnson sued Monsanto, the maker of the weed killer Roundup, claiming that...
Bank codes of conduct: add bars to the window dressing and make them legally binding
Oct 26, 2018 07:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Banks dont need 10 commandments to do the right thing, but just six, says the head of the banking royal commission. The first of those commandments set out by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne is to obey the law. The other...
Danske Bank: the story of Europe's biggest money laundering scandal
Oct 24, 2018 00:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
It is clear that Danske Bank has failed to live up to its responsibility in the case of possible money laundering in Estonia. So said Thomas Borgen, CEO of Denmarks biggest financial institution, when he resigned...
Why Canada must prosecute returning ISIS fighters
Oct 20, 2018 16:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Human rights champion Nadia Murad was recently co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In August 2014, Murads village in northern Iraq was attacked by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and she was sold into sexual...
Compensating underage people smugglers from Indonesia for their unlawful treatment in Australia
Oct 20, 2018 16:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Indonesian and Australian lawyers have taken up the cases involving Indonesian minors who were caught manning boats that smuggled asylum seekers to Australia. The Australian authorities used to treat many minors like...
The problem with using 'super recognisers' to spot criminals in a crowd
Oct 20, 2018 15:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
People often say that they never forget a face, but for some people, this claim might actually be true. So-called super recognisers are said to possess exceptional face recognition abilities, often remembering the faces of...
With a billion reasons not to trust super trustees, we need regulators to act in the public interest
Oct 20, 2018 05:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Did you think to yourself that taking money to which there was no entitlement raised a question of the criminal law? Commissioner Kenneth Hayne asked Nicole Smith, who resigned as chair of NABs superannuation trustee,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects